Maria Solis is at home with the sprawling, diversity of Catholic liturgical music in the United States. Growing up bilingual in Texas, she saw the eclectic cultural influences of music at Mass, and, ...
WASHINGTON — The doctrine committee of the US bishops’ conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that ...
This post started out as an installment in my “Hymns I Would Block For All Eternity” series, maybe it still is, but I wanted to broaden it just a little bit. Someone in one of the fun, snarky church ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (OSV News) — Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City issued a new decree Nov. 5 on the use of hymns in the liturgy, after determining a synodal approach on the issue — one of ...