Pope Francis has described how he prepares and delivers his homilies for morning Mass, in an interview given to introduce a new collection of homilies and speeches given while the Pope was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The volume of more than 1,000 pages, published in Italian, includes all Pope Francis’s homilies from 1999 until his election as pope in 2013, for which there was a written record or a recording that could be transcribed.
"Sometimes our words respond to questions nobody is asking," Pope Francis said in an interview with Jesuit Fr Antonio Spadaro, editor of the Jesuit journal, La Civilta Cattolica. "If you don't listen to people, how can you preach?"
