During his homily, the pope said the faith of the church was marred by divisions and rivalry among the clergy—an implicit criticism of recent infighting within the Vatican.
Pope Francis skipped his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, avoiding strenuous speech at the start of a busy week leading up to Easter Sunday.
It was an act of humility, Pope Francis explained in a short homily to show that he is at the service of others, particularly the poor and the marginalized.
Haphazard among the sermons and homilies, the travels, the lives of the Saints, the Fathers, the histories of the church, were old-fashioned novels; and these Philip at last discovered.
The Reagans' homilies to the nation, moreover, were a first small step toward an even larger objective convincing Americans that the war against drug abuse really begins at home.
Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof.