Least Popular Homily Topics

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Been chatting with one of our parish priests (and my seminarian nephew) about homilies and what would be the least popular homily topics we could think of - jokingly challenging my nephew to pick one for his first homily after ordination. By least popular, I don’t mean boring, per se, such as “give money” homilies, but those that touch upon topics that are so sensitive that a good percentage of the congregation would be in a huff. This isn’t to say some of these shouldn’t be topics for homilies (e.g. contraception), but just a discussion on which ones would be most off-putting to a general mix, especially with a large number of cafeteria Catholics in attendance.

Some right off the bat:
Contraception
Not decorating for Christmas or listening to Christmas music until Christmas day (this isn’t doctrinal, but I mention it because we had a priest preach on this once, and it was the only time I saw him cornered by several people after mass)
Predestination
Some Aquinas writings, such as the idea of the blessed rejoicing over the sufferings of the damned
The “Five Essentials” for Catholic voters from Catholic Answers

Others?
 
Recent events concerning Pope Francis and communion to divorced and remarried.
 
Having the liturgy ad orientem.
That the so-called “Latin Mass” was never suppressed and has equal status with the vernacular Mass.
Why Friday penance year-round is still necessary.
The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi (roughly, “The way we worship is the way we believe”)
 
Hell. Who wants to hear that it is still a possibility?
 
Not a homily per se, but when the new marriage ministry leaders talk, and they have been married for 6 months. 😁
 
I always say global warning. You would be surprised how few people pick up on it.

That would be a good topic, msybe.
 
My thing was always why some topics are addressed over and over and over and over and others never, absolutely never. Even when the readings go to some unpleasant topic they find a way to get back to the standards, which don’t bear repeating. Anyone who goes to Church knows them too achingly well.
 
I’d say at present the ones that leave me in confusion as there isn’t any conclusion to the homily but a lot of guesuring and shrugging that says ‘I don’t know,I’ll leave it up to you to decide’
 
When the priest speaks in my parish, the Homily is always about the Scripture readings of the Mass, as it should be.

Guest homilists are rare but dreaded: A few examples over the years:
  • Parishioner/businessman on the “Parish Appeal” (annual fund drive)
  • Parishioner/convert talking about marriage and his conversion to Catholicism, with too much praise for his wife
  • Sister working in third-world missions, calling for donations
and the worst ever, during Advent one year:
  • Salesman speaking about the plight of Christian artisans in the Holy Land who eke out a living by their crafts made of real Holy Land olive wood, and Holy Land relics made with wood, olive oil, stone, and soil from the Holy Land, all wonderful Christmas gifts, for sale after Mass.
And do you know what bothered me even more than the mercantile aspect? He didn’t say a word about the Christian martyrs in this era in the Middle East, and he didn’t ask that we pray for the poor Christian artisans (or martyrs) in the Holy Land, only that we purchase their goods. Ugh! As homilies go, that one was a real stinker.

To the OP: I apologize for diverting your topic from more theological concerns.
 
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Near where I live, in the southeastern United States, we have an inordinate number of Polish priests, and they like to talk about hell.
 
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