Composer Tony Alonso hopes that the music will "make people move." The Catholic Herald reports that Tony Alonso, 40, has more than 20 collections of Catholic hymns to his name, but this is his first ...

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 ...

Many Catholics pine for the return of Gregorian chant, and for good reason. The chant of the Roman Rite represents the very voice of the Faith, a true prayer in song, one that can and should draw all ...

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 ...

Moving forward, hymns will be evaluated by their doctrinal content. Moving forward, hymns will be evaluated by their doctrinal content. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently ...

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, ...