Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit provision for parish hymn-singing in the Book of Common Prayer, and, in ...

November begins with the Feast of All Saints. That month will mark the beginning of a new UCA News series, Saints of the New Millenium, that will profile some of Asia’s saints, “ordinary” people who ...

The U.S. bishops voted to approve close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. The Nov. 12 vote was 205-5 with two abstentions. The proposal needed two-thirds of the Latin-rite bishops to ...

There’s a musical piece you’ve likely heard many times before—but unless you have a particularly trained ear and are also hip to the catalog of Medieval Latin hymns, you probably haven’t noticed it.

EVERYTHING in the Lithuanian garden is rosy, for the present at least. It's not rosy-red, of course, and that is part of the reason for the joyous celebratory atmosphere which existed in Vilnius this ...

Peter Ferdinando recalls a time when people in Sri Lanka viewed the use of traditional Latin rites at Mass or during other church services as “not Catholic or even anti-Catholic." This attitude has ...

His hymns survive today among those of the Roman Breviary, which, it is true, few people use. In 1836, however, John Henry Newman, still a member of the Church of England, inherited a copy of the ...