Often homilies are so long, 20 or 30 minutes, that people will go outside to smoke a cigarette and come back, the pope said.

Hours after the last visitors and pilgrims left St. Peter's Basilica for the day, a chisel clanged and dust flew as a group ...

Preachers must preach an idea, a feeling, and a call to action. Beyond eight minutes the preaching starts to fade, it is not understood,” Pope Francis said.

The increasingly leftward lurch of the Democratic Party as a whole has alienated millions of people of faith and raises serious questions about the ability of our party to regain the White House in ...

His willingness to speak clearly and confidently was so unusual that it earned him the attention of the Canada Revenue Agency ...

German automaker Mercedes-Benz delivered an electric popemobile to the Vatican on Wednesday for use by the pontiff, who has ...

Join St. Paul Parish in Philadelphia for their upcoming Advent MIX Mass on Dec. 8 at 5:00p.m. Fr. Paul Galetto, O.S.A. will ...

The Holy See has suppressed the Carmelite Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas, a month after its residents ...

A confessional is a booth where Catholic priests hear parishioners' confessions of their sins and grant them absolution, ...

Ghana’s bishops urged Catholics not be “swayed by divisive rhetoric or empty promises but seek to promote candidates who will ...

While the College of Cardinals will still largely be European, after the Dec. 7 consistory more than 90 countries will be ...