Diocese bans ‘All Are Welcome,’ other hymns from Catholic Masses Credit: muzsy/Shutterstock By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2024 / 15:40 pm ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City decreed Oct. 28 that a dozen hymns no longer be used at churches in his mid-Missouri diocese. The most familiar of these: Marty Haugen's "All Are Welcome." ...

In a decree dated Oct. 24, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs that will be “absolutely forbidden” in the diocese after Nov. 1.