VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In giving priority to Gregorian chant and to classical liturgical music, the Catholic Church is not trying to limit anyone’s creativity but is showcasing a tradition of beautiful ...

Pilgrims cheer as Dave and Lauren Moore and others perform July 19, 2024, during the third revival night of the National Eucharistic Congress at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Credit: OSV News ...

Inside the Hammerstein Ballroom's great double doors, beyond the metal gates and metal detectors, the three-story music venue's lights are turned down, the stage empty. A few people mill about, and to ...

With its prestige, wealth and power, the papacy, almost from the beginning, has been a major patron of music. The huge body of unaccompanied sacred melody known as Gregorian chant was, after all, ...

It could be any big rock show. Strobes are shooting out from behind the band onstage. A crowd of 1,600 sways back and forth, arms outstretched, singing along to every word. The music swells—keyboards, ...

(RNS) James Merritt spent years as senior pastor of an Atlanta-area megachurch that featured a mighty choir. Then he changed his tune. At 50, he left First Baptist Church Snellville to plant a new ...

Disputes with the clergy, low wages and exploitation are placing this national tradition under threat Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: ...

Nowhere was music more essential than in church. The hymns people sang on Sunday mornings warned them of God’s eternal judgment, but also offered the promise of salvation—even to the sinners who had ...

Deep in the hills of Appalachia, there's a mournful, beautiful style of church music that hasn't changed since the 18th century. The hymns of the Old Regular Baptist Church are sung in the so-called ...