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 ...

Inspired by the shrine’s history and mission, the new hymn invites pilgrims to reflect on Our Lady’s message and maternal protection. Choir members rehearse the new hymn honoring Our Lady of Champion, ...

This is a listener-supported podcast! Thanks for your help! Music formed the early Christians in faith. It catechized them. Inspired them. Unified them. Healed them. The Fathers—from Ignatius of ...

I write this with both love and concern. Love for my Church and its beautiful liturgy, and concern for the quiet, unspoken struggles faced by a group of dedicated individuals who bring that liturgy to ...

The joyous strains of youthful voices singing some of the Catholic Church's most beautiful Masses, anthems and hymns were silenced over the past two years by the coronavirus pandemic. But rejoice!

Should Catholics sing hymns at Mass? Given the state of Catholic liturgical music, it’s a fair question. In the last century, Catholics exchanged their musical solid food for milk—usually skim and on ...

Moving forward, hymns will be evaluated by their doctrinal content. Moving forward, hymns will be evaluated by their doctrinal content. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently ...

The Concerto for Choir is Alfred Schnittke’s most explicit rapprochement with an Orthodoxy that he embraced fully just months before his death, and he would surely have been surprised that, almost ...