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

Hymns that are liked by the people are a good choice, but it’s also important that they convey the Catholic faith,’ said ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious has written lyrics for more than 100 hymns.

Members of the Fil-Am Choir from St. Gregory the Great Parish in Virginia Beach, Va., sing the offertory hymn during a Jan. 18, 2020, Mass. The U.S. bishops' doctrine committee, in a forthcoming ...

A woman is pictured in a file photo singing the closing hymn during Sunday Mass at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va. (OSV News photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec) (OSV News) — Bishop W. Shawn ...

Maybe "All Are Welcome" after all. Less than a week after it had taken effect, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, rescinded his decree that blacklisted a dozen liturgical hymns from ...

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 ...

A choir from Fort Portal Diocese sings at the Catholic shrine in Namugongo, Wakiso District, during commemoration of Uganda Martyrs’ Day in 2022. PHOTO/MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI Francis Muwonge, the ...