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Pope Francis on Wednesday called on Catholic priests to keep their homilies short -- "no longer than eight minutes" -- so that their audiences would not "fall asleep". The homily or sermon is the address in which a priest comments on a reading from the Bible. A homily, he said, was meant to tr...