St. Charles Borromeo Seminary will host the day-long event Oct. 6 with national homiletics experts plus Catholic and ...

PREACH seeks to recognize existing pastors. It also strives to disciple the next generation of pastors by teaching students ...

The culture has a series of objections to God's word. Most of them begin by challenging believers with “tough texts” about ...

I have preached a lot of sermons over the years. From the very beginning, I settled on an expository method with the goal of ...

Jesus’ mission has begun, and he has chosen Apostles to perpetuate it. Today, we hear the Sermon on the Mount. Because the current Lectionary tries to reach each Gospel relatively continuously, ...

About fifteen years ago, I prepared an elective class at Mundelein Seminary which I entitled "The Christology of the Poets and Preachers." In this course, I endeavored to explore the Catholic ...

There was a time when I was willing to declare what good preaching is: "Every sermon must begin with a scripture text," I declared. "Every sermon must go by Calvary. Every good preacher holds the ...

Allowing Scripture to civilize our thinking. Lee Eclov thinks people need more than helpful applications in a sermon. Rather than being told what to do in three easy step, Eclov argues that good ...

The idea of preaching without Scripture may seem preposterous, but I suggest it just the same, as a way of drawing attention to a little known, much less accepted, mainline teaching of the Roman ...

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the Rev. William O'Toole searched for real-life stories he could use in his Christmas homily. These stories, he said, can help people understand the Christmas ...

Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...