
CV NEWS FEED // The historic Philadelphia seminary has released a survey to local parishioners to “help advise priests and deacons about preaching effectively,” according to a report from Catholic Philly.
The ten-minute survey from the Catholic Preaching Institute at St Charles Borromeo Seminary asks parishioners to “consider your own experience of listening to homilies,” and to give “an overall picture of the preaching you have heard.”
The survey’s implementation comes in wake of the recent $1.2 million grant the Institute received from the Lilly Endowment, a private philanthropic foundation based in Indianapolis dedicated to providing financial support for causes related to “community development, education, and religion.”
Father Thomas Dailey, OSFS, who is the John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics & Social Communications at St Charles Borromeo, said that the survey “is crucial to understanding the need to improve preaching.”
“So we hope that folks will be honest in their estimation of their experience,” he added.
Answers from the survey will be “used anonymously by the institute to design its future programs and public events for helping priests and deacons to improve their homilies,” the report stated.
The survey will be available in both English and Spanish on the seminary’s website until March 22, 2024.
