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 ...

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 ...

Adam of Saint Victor, a prominent and prolific writer of Latin hymns, b. in the latter part of the twelfth century, probably at Paris; d. in the Abbey of Saint Victor then in the suburbs of Paris but ...

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 ...

“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...