Maria Solis is at home with the sprawling, diversity of Catholic liturgical music in the United States. Growing up bilingual in Texas, she saw the eclectic cultural influences of music at Mass, and, ...

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 — The doctrine committee of the US bishops’ conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that ...

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 ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...

The winning hymn and theme song, which were chosen from among some 177 entries, were announced in August. Diane Mahoney's original composition “We Do Believe, O Lord” has been selected as the 2024 ...

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Christmas carol “O Holy Night” ranked first in a list of hymns most played in December at Christian churches in the United States. “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “Silent Night” ...

A woman prays during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 28, 2021, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Lead me, guide me, along the way. For ...