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Vatican News: Vatican Dicastery maintains that a layperson cannot deliver the homily
June 23 2026
Joe O'Leary
From the article: `Exactly what is the basis for a layperson's inability to comment on the Word of God before a congregation of the faithful? If a theologian with a doctorate in Sacred Scripture can't gloss the Sunday Gospel, but a newly ordained priest who has never opened an exegetical commentary can, the criterion isn't competence. It's the clerical caste of sacred officials, which wants to be preserved at all costs.' Claire Daurelle is the French Church as I thought it to be and as the whole church ought to be. Canon lawyers straining out gnats is a betrayal of this church. Synodality should have entailed a highlighting of the values at stake here, and open discussion of them in light of the Gospel and the experience of the faithful. Instead -- back to Trent! a Council that betrayed itself by handing all authority over to the Pope in its final days; resulting in the crimes of the Roman Inquisition -- burnings at the stake -- Bruno in 1600, Manfredi in 1610 -- other forms of bullying and sectarian fanaticism -- until a saner, more secular and peaceful world dawned with the Treaty of Westphalia 1648. For all the noise about synodality, collegiality, and Vatican II, the message coming across is that Canon Law trumps them all and is more sacred than them all. Mary McAleese's question resounds: QUO VADIS?
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Vatican News: Vatican Dicastery maintains that a layperson cannot deliver the homily
June 23 2026
Soline Humbert
The forbidden pulpit: Rome silences lay people at Mass. "Prohibiting this practice for lay people is not defending the sacramentality of the homily. It is defending the institution at the expense of the Gospel. Because clericalism is not only a moral vice. It is also an ecclesiological heresy. And the pulpit closed to lay people is its most visible monument... The homily as a clerical monopoly did not originate with Jesus. It originated with the Council of Trent." https://www.religiondigital.org/rumores_de_angeles/pulpito-prohibido-roma-cierra-boca_132_1459020.html
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Vatican News: Vatican Dicastery maintains that a layperson cannot deliver the homily
June 23 2026
Soline Humbert
I wonder what French woman Claire Daurelle, if she were still alive, would think of this. Claire, a parish pastoral worker, was commissioned to preach the homily at Mass by the Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Decourtray in the 1980s & 1990s. She gave her testimony at a seminar I attended back in 1995. She concluded: "My greatest hope is that the Church will have a future, not an artificial future laid down by so-and-so; certainly not a stifling future, an imprisonment in Tradition; rather an open future with the Holy Spirit leading us onto new paths." https://womenpriests.org/vocation/daurelle-claire-daurelle-2/
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21 June 2026 – 12th Sunday, (A)
June 21 2026
M G-B
Yes, the grief of loosing a child is beyond words. A close friend told me of her anguish when her still born baby was placed beside her after the birth. She said she kept repeating "I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me."
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Vatican News: Vatican Dicastery maintains that a layperson cannot deliver the homily

Vatican News: Vatican Dicastery maintains that a layperson cannot deliver the homily

Vatican News: Vatican Dicastery maintains that a layperson cannot deliver the homily

21 June 2026 – 12th Sunday, (A)