VATICAN CITY – The following is the Vatican's official English translation of Pope Francis' Christmas Eve Mass homily, which he delivered in Italian. "Tonight 'a great light' shines forth (Is 9:1); ...

The Vatican is not publishing the full text of the Pope's daily homilies because it wants to avoid giving them a level of authority that is not intended. "We must insist on the fact that, in all of ...

Pope Francis’ daily homilies, delivered without notes at the morning mass he celebrates in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae inside the Vatican, have drawn worldwide interest. His reflections on ...

Vatican Press Office reports that the full text of Pope Francis’ public events is made available, but the daily homilies are only summarized because of ‘the character of the situation and the ...