This story was originally published Dec. 8, 2022 WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are one of our oldest holiday ...

The last time the Catholic church here faced an existential threat was on New Year’s Eve 1935, when the church was set ablaze ...

Mother Teresa of Saint Augustine and her 15 companions, who were guillotined in Paris as they sang hymns of praise, can immediately be venerated worldwide as saints in the Catholic Church.

During the Dec. 15 trip, the pontiff encouraged the island’s Catholic majority to continue to foster its traditional piety as ...

there will be a 5 p.m. Mass Christmas eve and a 11 a.m. Mass on Christmas Day at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rainelle, and at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Ronceverte, Christmas eve Mass will ...

A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the ...

Some of those early hymns are still used today in the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Church. While they certainly can count as the first Christmas holiday-specific songs, it’s difficult to call ...

Handel’s "Messiah," penned 283 years ago, is a holiday composition that lends varied, strong voices into one harmonious and ...

Catholic hymnody has a less happy history. I have an old Pius X hymnal and it is filled with hymns, mostly to the saints and the blessed mother, that can generously be described as saccharine.

President William Ruto has shown his religious side after leading the clergymen in a popular hymn song during the visit to Sate House in Nairobi.