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 ...

Over the last decade, the Church has struggled to draw people closer to the celebration of the liturgy — and especially the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Lack of attendance at Mass among younger ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Jan. 23, 1982 edition of America. Numberless things liturgical have changed for the better since Vatican II. Should you have any doubt of the ...

A recently launched initiative in San Francisco will educate Church musicians about sacred music and train lay ministers for their roles, according to Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. "To recover a ...

I am a cradle Catholic. I was born after the Mass of St. Paul VI was already well established. I grew up familiar with hymns like On Eagle’s Wings and The King of Glory, and I enthusiastically sang ...

A document regulating music at Mass will be presented for approval to the United States Council of Catholic Bishops at their Fall General Assembly in Baltimore. Bishop Donald Trautman, outgoing ...

On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and chanted the Marian prayer "Regina Caeli" in Latin. While many consider Latin chant controversial ...

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 ...

A new musical blending contemporary hip-hop music and Catholic liturgy debuted Feb. 14-16 at the Lyke House, a Catholic Newman Center serving historically Black colleges in Atlanta. The "Hip-Hop Mass" ...

On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and did something that shocked some Catholics -- he chanted the Marian prayer Regina Caeli in Latin.