VATICAN CITY (CNA)—Although he is the only person in the world to have the job of preaching to the Pope, Father Raniero Cantalamessa sees his work as simply delivering the message of the Gospel. “It ...

St. Paul’s theology to guide this year’s Advent sermon series Vatican City, Dec 5, 2008 / 11:59 am As is done each year, the Pope and the members of the Roman Curia began attending a series of Advent ...

Pope Francis presides over a mass at Place d'Austerlitz in Ajaccio. Vatican Media/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa Pope Francis has cancelled his participation in an Advent sermon that had been planned for some ...

For many Christians this past Sunday marked the beginning of Advent: A season of anticipation as we prepare for the birth of Jesus. Churches who read the selected scriptures from the lectionary read ...

My sermons during December will be on the themes of Anticipation, Hope, Preparation and Celebration. I begin today with Anticipation. Having recently returned from annual leave, I've reminded myself ...

Plenty can be said about a famous night of silence so long ago. So much, in fact, that it’ll stretch for a five-week Advent sermon series for a Bartholomew County husband-wife clergy couple beginning ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - It's a Lenten tradition more than a century old. Cathedral Church of the Advent resumes its annual weekday preaching and Lenten lunches on Ash Wednesday, March 5. So you can hear ...

Most Americans these days know Advent as a sort of countdown to the Christmas-shopping deadline, fueled by Christmassy songs on the radio and in stores and punctuated by office parties and reminders ...