Pope Benedict XVI arrives to deliver a eulogy during a Mass for Czech
Cardinal Tomas Spidlik in St Peter’s Basilica April 20, 2010. Photo:
CNS/Alessia Giuliani, Catholic Press Photo. What’s the difference between a homily and a eulogy? The difference usually seems very clear-cut — until you go to a priest’s funeral (or a bishop’s). For a clergy funeral, the homilist eulogises and homilises, all at the same time. As a fictional homilist-eulogist might put it, “Fr X was a mighty priest, who was nice…
