About 1 out of 3 people raised Catholic have left the Catholic Church, according to a study done by the Pew Research Center in 2011. About half of them become Protestants and half become unchurched.

Catholic Church Music ImprovementIt is confidently expected that the appointment of Cardinal STEINHUBER to the position of Prefect of the Congregation of the Index, which carries with it the ...

Among many other pronouncements, the council made decisions about music. Church music, it said, had become too humanistic, too complex. You couldn't hear the words clearly.

Their sound is far from traditional church hymns. “There is rap, rock... different genres and softer songs,” said Father Victor Perez, pastor at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Houston. Despite living ...

They did not count on the fact that American Catholic church music has always been in the hands of amateurs. And it continues that way. Having dared say this, we come to the central problem.

As vaccination rates permit the lifting of some Covid-19 restrictions, congregations are easing back into singing. Here’s what music ministers have learned over the past year.

The music director of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Arlington, Va., leads the singers through the Sanctus, or Holy Holy, tweaking until the new words and rhythms become second nature.

In the ordinary Catholic liturgy, however, simpler standards should apply. The music should be high quality, reverent and profound — which is the opposite of “mediocre, superficial and banal.” ...

For Catholic Church music today, however, the critic might dispense with high literary style and adopt a somewhat more sober, less witty tone than G.B. Shaw or Virgil Thompson.

When the Catholic Church was rent by the multifaceted rejection of the faith in the 1500s known collectively as the Protestant Reformation, secular music began to develop separately from Catholic ...

Likewise, Catholic churches are failing when it comes to music. Among Protestants, 75% of those who regularly attend services in person and 57% of those who regularly watch on TV or online are ...

About 1 out of 3 people raised Catholic have left the Catholic Church, according to a study done by the Pew Research Center in 2011. About half of them become Protestants and half become unchurched.