‘Hymns that are liked by the people are a good choice, but it’s also important that they convey the Catholic faith,’ said Archbishop Shawn McKnight. Scene from the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress ...

Program director Michael Roberts demonstrates the Great Catholic Music app for listeners. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Chris Cugini, Living Bread Radio.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Catholics hear hymns ...

Now the hymn is in the Church’s new global hymnbook, “ Hymns — For Home and Church .” The words were written by the late ...

Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious has ...

No matter the language, Maria R. Nieva is pleased to greet the Blessed Mother in song. Nieva, a music minister in Our Lady of ...

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 ...

For generations, Catholics had to navigate their way around the Index of Forbidden Books. Now, some Catholics will have to do the same with the Index of Forbidden Music, Liturgical Division. Bishop W.

Kate Basi, a liturgical composer and member of the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Choir in Columbia, Mo., is seen in this undated photo. On June 8, 2022, the Association of Catholic Publishers named her ...

WASHINGTON — At the beginning of this Lenten season, some Catholics in the United States were singing the hymn “Ashes” and announcing, “We rise again from ashes to create ourselves anew.” Although ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is a composer who wishes her music was not so popular. One of her works, titled "If We Just Talk of Thoughts and Prayers," is a biblically based response to politicians who, ...

Several hymns were temporarily banned last year in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, after being found “to be insufficient in sound doctrine,” with the action raising questions about what music ...