Today, sacred music has transcended church walls. Hymns like And My Heart Is Happy Again by Father Thành Tâm or Prayer of Peace by Father Kim Long are sung beyond Catholic communities. "The Season of ...

Catholics hear hymns in church, but hardly ever on the radio. Now they can augment their weekly diet of hymnody through a new audio web streaming service called Great Catholic Music.

A steady diet of these hymns would erode Catholic sensibility regarding the fullness of Eucharistic teaching, on the Mass as sacrifice, and eventually on the Church, as formed by that sacrifice.” ...

The offertory procession for the first Swahili Mass at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Aug. 11, featured gifts of pineapples, bananas and other fruits.

In 50 or 100 years, a high proportion of sacred songs in the Korean Catholic Church will be Korean hymns,” he said. “It’s like a mustard seed. One of the smallest seeds becomes one of the largest ...

In a video welcoming the adoption of the hymn for the Sept. 5-12 meeting, Cardinal Péter Erdő noted that the lyrics date back to the last time that the Hungarian capital hosted an International ...

A subcommittee headed by Oakland, Calif., Bishop Allen Vigneron is crafting a set of composition guidelines to ensure the Church hymns conform to Church teaching.

I have a proposal. Let's make the new church year the year of the hymn canon. Pick a strong few hymns for each season and then sing them, Sunday after Sunday.

McLean, pastor of First Church of Christ in Hartford, then asked the Rev. Michael Galasso, pastor of nearby St. Peter’s Catholic Church, if he could spare some ashes.

The singers and musicians represented both Catholic and Protestant traditions, including denominations such as Wesley, ...

On June 8, 2022, the Association of Catholic Publishers named her hymn “Come, All You Thirsty” as its 2022 Song of the Year. (Credit: CNS photo/Phu Nguyen, courtesy The Catholic Missourian) ...