NORWALK -- Parishioners of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church assembled in a courtyard Sunday morning to witness the blessing of palm fronds by a priest in a traditional Latin-language rite, accompanied ...
‘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 ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A previously undiscovered musical arrangement by Ludwig van Beethoven was performed for the first time at a British university on Thursday. The two-minute long piece is an organ ...
Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...
Michigan's rustic Upper Peninsula is roughly three-quarters forest. Marquette Bishop John Doerfler, who came to upper Michigan in 2014 from the diocese of Green Bay, Wis., wants to hear the woods echo ...
The U.S. bishops voted to approve close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. The Nov. 12 vote was 205-5 with two abstentions. The proposal needed two-thirds of the Latin-rite bishops to ...
On a recent Friday afternoon, amid the bustle of midtown Anchorage traffic, the sounds of Old World liturgical chant — deep baritones mixing with high alto voices — floated from a tiny chapel. The ...
It's not exactly the "Ode to Joy," but a new hymn believed to be by Beethoven has surfaced in Berlin. An English academic found the the 192-year-old piece in a sketchbook. Barry Cooper found the ...