By Paula Katinas and Allyson Escobar
BAY RIDGE — In one old cartoon from The Tablet, a parishioner leaving church commented that a priest must have been a geometry teacher before, “because his homilies had so many tangents.”
Yes, most Catholics say they don’t prefer long-winded, rambling sermons. In general, when it comes to homilies, the shorter, the better, they believe.
But in a time of coronavirus, priests are approaching their homilies in new ways…
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