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What’s it like for a priest from Pennsylvania to become an archbishop in Kentucky? John Allen has a pretty interesting interview with Louisville’s Joseph Kurtz, in which he talks about southern Catholicism, the importance of vocations — he’s a real rainmaker in that department — preaching, and politicians: This is an election year, and once…

Every preacher knows you can’t please everyone. And the Archbishop of Canterbury has just displeased a vocal group of Protestants with his homily yesterday at Lourdes. From CNS: Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, England, has come under fire for his homily during a pilgrimage to the Marian sanctuaries in Lourdes, France. Archbishop Williams, leader…

Most of the people in the pews — and the people in the pulpit, for that matter — know this inconvenient truth: a lot of sermons are dull. But the guy in this story, from the Boston Globe, thinks he has the solution: ‘Most preaching is boring.” There. He said it. In front of 30…

This is really something: the improvised homily yesterday of Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin. He chucked his prepared remarks to deliver this measured, thoughtful, but unwavering attack on the continuing confusions of Speaker Pelosi and Senator Biden. You owe it to yourself to give a listen to the mp3. This is how a shepherd…
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