I was in over my head, and I knew it. During my senior year of college, I was called to pastor a rural congregation fifteen minutes off campus. My senior class friends were making the most of their ...

We have to remind ourselves that the effectiveness of a priest's preaching depends mainly on the state of his spiritual life. More than his intellectual caliber and his speaking and entertaining ...

“Preach the Gospel, and if necessary, use words.” Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, this oft-quipped admonition reminds us to practice what we preach. For those called to the Christian ministry, ...

Artificial intelligence may be able to generate polished sermons, complete with structure, illustrations and theological analysis, but it cannot embody lived faith, suffering or spiritual encounter, ...

My work as an imam and focus on spiritual coexistence in Israel and Palestine has shown me that the best personal defense against destructive emotions is to find the other inside ourselves. A complex ...

Celebrating the Chrism Mass, Francis invites priests to meditate on "priestly closeness". " When people say of a priest, “he is close to us”, they usually mean two things. The first is that “he is ...

Pope Leo XIV urged priests to avoid using AI for sermons, warning that technology cannot replace faith, prayer, or personal preaching.

With the Karnataka High Court lifting conditions imposed on his spiritual activities, self-styled godman Nityananda Swami, facing rape and other criminal charges, on Sunday resumed religious ...