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Bishop Anthony B. Taylor shares his insights on the role of hymns, choir, and Mass parts in the liturgy. No applause and movement coverage emphasized.
From inside the walls of a prison to inside the walls of the Vatican City, Jelly Roll‘s story of redemption has been nothing ...
Clipse and Pharrell perform at The Vatican In one of the most surprising and emotionally charged performances of the year, [… ...
Hymnody is a powerful ecumenical tool. No matter where I worship, be it in a Baptist Lutheran, Catholic or Presbyterian ...
I write this with both love and concern. Love for my Church and its beautiful liturgy, and concern for the quiet, unspoken struggles faced by a group of dedicated individuals who bring that liturgy to ...
From Marcos Witt and Marcela Gandara to Un Corazón and Farruko, these artists have taken us on a spiritual and sonic journey. Christian music has a rich and vibrant history, forged over centuries and ...
In a recent article Donald Hustad called for a philosophy of church music that is more than “a matter of aesthetics.” Such a philosophy is not easy to achieve. Prejudice must be divorced from taste, ...
A gay Catholic school music teacher in Louisiana claimed he was fired after a parent discovered his husband’s obituary and accused him of breaking the school’s morality clause. Mark Richards had ...
On June 17, Father Pierre Nguyễn Kim Long — composer of the iconic “Prayer of Peace” and over 3,500 hymns — passed away at 84. His death is not only a loss for Vietnamese sacred music but the end of ...
They wore native Nigerian attire, the men in senator shirts and the women in boubous and headgear fanning out like giant halos. The choir broke into an Igbo hymn, helmed by a sonorous voice belonging ...
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles leading up to the 150th anniversary of the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Hammonton. HAMMONTON – World-renowned musicians will be ...
CANTON – Central Catholic and St. Thomas Aquinas high schools will stage "The Sound of Music" at the Canton Palace Theater, 605 Market Ave. N, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 pm. Sunday. The ...