The Institute for Homiletics at the University of Dallas was recently awarded a one-million-dollar grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help renew liturgical preaching to better reach Catholic youth and young adults. The Institute is...

On a sunny day in Florida during the Preaching for Encounter program’s February 2023 winter retreat, three panelists came together to present “Connecting Pulpit and Pew” for the online Southwest Liturgical Conference. The three of...

On March 4, 2023, more than a hundred deacons and their wives gathered for the annual Deacon Congress for the diocese of Dallas, TX. Dr. Karla Bellinger, executive director of the Institute for Homiletics presented...

Deacon John J. O'Leary, Associate Director of the Institute for Homiletics, is pleased to accept a grant from The Catholic Foundation to support start-up costs for the institute.

We are beginning to recruit the next cohort of the Preaching for Encounter program. Are you a preacher who is eager to learn and grow? Do you passionately want your homilies to bring your people...

Dr. Karla J. Bellinger Elected President of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics

We live in a unique time. Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, refocused the Church on the vital role of the homily in the evangelization of the modern world.

The Institute for Homiletics was recently featured in The Texas Catholic’s story, ‘Preaching for an encounter with God’: If the word homiletician isn’t in your personal vocabulary, maybe it should be. A homiletician could make...

A Catholic preacher is like a rock star. While he walks 30 feet or drives 60 miles to the church building for Mass, hundreds (sometimes thousands) of us, his listeners, are getting ready to hear...