Pope Benedict XVI is pictured during Mass at Yankee Stadium in New York in this April 20, 2008 file photo. An English edition of a book of Pope Benedict XVI's previously unpublished homilies has been ...

An English edition of a book of Pope Benedict XVI's previously unpublished homilies has been released by the Vatican. "The Lord Holds Us by the Hand” offers readers a collection of Pope Benedict's ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A Vatican ruling that bars laypeople, including women, from preaching the homily at Mass is testing the limits of Pope Leo XIV’s early signals of openness to women’s leadership in ...

The Vatican Publishing House released the English edition of 'The Lord Holds Us by the Hand' on June 24. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Vatican's Teutonic Cemetery for ...

(OSV News) — Lay groups in Germany involved in the local Church’s controversial Synodal Way say they will continue demanding the right to preach at Mass, defying a recent rejection by the Vatican of ...

Preaching the homily during the celebration of Mass is "intrinsically linked to the proclamation of the Gospel" and is therefore restricted to ordained priests and deacons, the Vatican has said. In a ...

ACI Prensa Staff, 23 June, 2026 / 11:16 pm (ACI Africa). VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has rejected a request by the German Bishops’ Conference to allow lay faithful, in exceptional circumstances, to ...

Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is pictured in a 2022 file photo. In an interview with OSV News, Cardinal Roche warned that ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has rejected a request by the German Bishops’ Conference to allow lay faithful, in exceptional circumstances, to preach the homily during the celebration of the Eucharist.

The Rev. Kurt Young says nothing is off-limits, but treads carefully around hot topics. Deacon Eddy Beckendorf works to make it relatable, such as telling the story about the time he got hit by a ...