A set of 2020 guidelines from the U.S. bishops, “Catholic Hymnody at the Service of the Church,” lays out criteria for evaluating whether hymns sung at Mass are accurately conveying the truths ...

Pope Leo XIV picks up where Pope Francis left off, and embraces a new Mass focused on the environment, care for the Earth and climate change.

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City decreed Oct. 28 that a dozen hymns no longer be used at churches in his mid-Missouri diocese. The most familiar of these: Marty Haugen's "All Are Welcome." ...

As a practising Catholic, I was raised to revere the Mass as the highest form of worship -- a sacred moment in which heaven touches earth and the faithful encounter the divine. Over the years, my ...

Today, sacred music has transcended church walls. Hymns like And My Heart Is Happy Again by Father Thành Tâm or Prayer of ...

It was 70 degrees and sunny for a blue sky dedication and blessing of the clock tower and new church bells on Aug. 11 at (OLPH) Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Glenview (1775 Grove St.).

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the new pontiff He tells cardinals in the Sistine Chapel that he hopes his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the "dark nights of ...

Pope Leo XIV marked his first full day as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church by celebrating Mass in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Friday with cardinals.

Instead of seeing the Latin Mass as a source of vitality in the Church, Francis denounces it as a rallying point of dissent. The celebration of the old rite, he argued in a letter to bishops that ...

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.