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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is calling for Latin America to care for its poorest and most marginalized, those who have been “enslaved” and exploited by an economic system that he said treats them ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is celebrating an important Latin American feast day with a Mass featuring Argentine folk hymns. The Argentine pope has praised the "Misa Criolla," one of the first Masses ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a ...

It is no great secret that the Catholic liturgy in the United States underwent significant changes in the 1960’s and 1970’s. First came the switch to the vernacular and the repositioning of the priest ...

The 12-string guitarist Sarah Louise and fiddler Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt) understand that folk music is a music that moves forward, as old hymns and songs passed down are just as ...