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VATICAN CITY — Priests should keep their homilies short and speak for a maximum of eight minutes to prevent members of the congregation from nodding off, Pope Francis said on Wednesday.The homily, or message delivered by a celebrant during a church service, "must be short: an image, a thought, a feeling," the pope said during his weekly audience.
"A homily in a Roman Catholic service usually follows a reading from the Bible and is used to reinforce the teaching.Francis has spoken in the past of the need for priests not to ramble on in their homilies but his own use of language is currently under scrutiny.He has caused controversy with reports that he has used a highly derogatory term to describe the LGBT community.
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