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Based on the findings, Pope Francis' homilies manifest using cohesive devices: grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution ellipsis, and conjunction); and lexical cohesion (reiteration and collocation). These devices played crucial roles in the pope's homilies, weaving togeth...
The trip is a much-truncated version of the 10-day tour St. John Paul II made through Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1985, during which the Polish pope delivered 59 speeches or homilies and was greeted by hundreds of thousands of adoring faithful. In Lu...
“It pained me that they used Benedict. The book was published on the day of his burial, and I felt it was a lack of nobility and humanity,” Francis said. Francis insisted that Benedict always deferred to him, defended him and supported him and was not behind any of the conservative a...
We know that the faithful attach great importance to it, and that both they and their ordained ministers suffer because of homilies: the laity from having to listen to them and the clergy from having to preach them! (§135) Has that ever happened befor...
There is more. Together with Pope Francis’ attacks against the idolatry of money, the society of waste, and unrestrained liberalism (attacks that he has increasingly dwelled into during his morning homilies at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, in the interview to the Jesuit-run magazineLa Civiltà Cat...
In the Beginning: A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall. Like many of our late pontiff’s writings, the four homilies collected in this volume are delightful to read because they are profound yet written in accessible prose. One of the reasons I love the book is ...
Findings reveal that Pope Francis utilizes three key appeals in his homilies. Firstly, he appeals to the mind by presenting ideas in a coherent and logical progression, incorporating examples and visual imagery to enhance comprehension. Secondly, he appeals to the heart by using l...