When Catholics arrive at church for the beginning of Advent this weekend, they may find themselves stumbling over not only the words, but also the music. The Vatican has changed the English-speaking ...
Sir James MacMillan, the foremost modern British composer and a forthright Catholic, says ‘music is the perfect art form to bring people together to see a better world.’ The music of Sir James ...
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 ...
SÃO PAULO – A festival of Catholic music drew more than 40,000 attendants on May 17 to Santa Bábara d’Oeste, a city with 180,000 inhabitants about 85 miles away from São Paulo, Brazil’s major economic ...
From left: Matt Maher with band members Kenny Butler, Dan Hinze and Kemi Ndolo There is a black sports utility vehicle idling in the parking lot of Yavapai Community College here that features, across ...
Michael Kunho Kim and his friends carefully checked all their musical instruments as their band, The Seventeen, geared up for YouTube livestreaming of their online concert in early September. “God so ...
There’s a musical stramash going on within the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland. In popular parlance it has been described as a battle between the “post-Vatican II hippies and the right-wing ...