Preachers and those in ministry confront a common dilemma: “We never live up to what we want to be,” says Patricia Bruno, O.P. “However, I think the preaching helps direct our own lives,” she adds. “It’s hard to say something in public that you don’t really believe.”

Rev. Brian Ching, C.S.C., shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., how knowledge of the Scripture, the life of faith and knowledge of the people in the pews is central to a good harmony.

“What's happening today in American society is the label of Christian is being applied to forces that are really deeply unchristian," Father Walter Modrys, S.J. shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J. on Preach.

The crisis of preaching in the Catholic Church won't be solved "unless we emphasize that the preacher needs to be someone who is constantly learning about the Scriptures... and a person of prayer," Father Bryan Massingale shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J. on Preach.

On this week’s episode of “Preach,” Isaac-el Fernandes, S.J., a Jesuit from Southern Africa, shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., just how he learned to depart from his prepared text and preach from the heart.

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua suspended diplomatic ties with the Vatican in what appears to be retaliation for Pope Francis’ likening his regime to “a communist dictatorship in 1917, or a Hitlerian one in 1935.”