Official Hymns - Catholic News Agency. Tuesday, April 22, 2025. ... Mexican musician Marco López wrote the lyrics and Kiki Troia, an Argentine Catholic singer, did the musical arrangement.

CNA Staff, Oct 31, 2024 / 15:40 pm. The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal ...

Recent guidelines on hymn lyrics from the U.S. bishops' conference encountered some pushback from Catholics. Catholic music directors and composers shared their thoughts with NCR.

Catholics hear hymns in church, but hardly ever on the radio. Now they can augment their weekly diet of hymnody through a new audio web streaming service called Great Catholic Music.

In a decree dated Oct. 24, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs that will be “absolutely forbidden” in the diocese after Nov. 1.

In beautiful lyrics in the St. Michael Hymnal the next three stanzas praise Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Trinity before asking them to protect and save those from every peril on the land, in ...

The document, titled "Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church: An Aid for Evaluating Hymn Lyrics," was produced by the Committee on Doctrine of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Easter 2017 Songs 2: Bill Gaither – Because He Lives Lyrics God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus; He came to love, heal and forgive; He lived and died to buy my pardon, An empty grave is ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that the church’s new hymnbook will have around 375 hymns and children’s songs in its printed version and is expected to be ...

Many of the prohibited titles appeared in a 2020 report from the USCCB’s doctrine committee, “Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church: An Aid for Evaluating Hymn Lyrics.” ...

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