Pope Francis greets choir members during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square in a file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen Is contemporary Catholic church music “mediocre, superficial and ...

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The project’s founder and some recent participants discuss how ‘sacred music disposes our hearts and souls to encounter Christ in the sacred liturgy.’ Peter Carter directs a schola at Princeton ...

When Jude Nnam wrote his first Mass in 1992, it was under the subconscious influence of a boyhood experience. In the mid-1970s, Nnam and two friends visited an Assemblies of God church in Enugu, the ...

Based at a former steel ship casting factory here, in a city known more for its ecological awareness and hipness than for organized religion, Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) sends out its church music ...

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Photo by Gianna Bonello via Unsplash. (RNS) — Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape ...

The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission. Mary Catherine Levri, associate professor ...

Having worked in Catholic church music ministry for nearly 40 years — basically his entire adult life — Mike McMahon thought he knew the landscape and his place in it. As a gay person, all was fine as ...