This, from a priest:

A propos your recent post about the synod, and the rhetorical question about “License to Preach,” I just wanted to add my $0.02.  The faculty for preaching does not always accompany Holy Orders.  It is a separate faculty, and one not granted to permanent deacons in the Archdiocese of Detroit until they request it, at minimum 6 months after ordination (absent some serious pastoral need…what exactly that would be is unclear).  Unfortunately, however, our transitional deacons receive the faculty for preaching immediately upon their Diaconal Ordination.  The faculty remains through priestly ordination.

I suppose that since the Church requires a Homily at the Sunday liturgy, it would be ineffective to ordain men without giving them the faculty to preach, but it could be done.  In my opinion, it might not be a bad idea.  And personally, I’d welcome any help that the Church would like to give me in preparing my homilies; it’s hard work!

This is an interesting topic to me, historically. There is such a thing as the priest simplex of course, who is ordained, but does not have faculties to preach or hear confessions. I also ran across something in a discussion of the Second Lateran Council (I know…800 years ago) which implied, to me, that preaching was not a given by all priests.

I’m going to have comments open on this thread, but I would really like it to be informational,preerably historical,  if we can…not so much complaining about specific homilists.