The last time the Catholic church here faced an existential threat was on New Year’s Eve 1935, when the church was set ablaze ...
This story was originally published Dec. 8, 2022 WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are one of our oldest holiday ...
The O Antiphons are much more than simple refrains to be chanted before Our Lady’s Magnifcat or to serve as verses in an ...
During the Dec. 15 trip, the pontiff encouraged the island’s Catholic majority to continue to foster its traditional piety as ...
Thankfully, there are no carols about that. A friend of Neale’s had given him an old Catholic hymnal from the 1500s, where he found the tune. He then took a story he had written earlier about We ...
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 ...
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.
Gonsalves, known as the "Father of Catholic Literature in Sri Lanka," served ... Hail Mary and Sign of the Cross and some special prayers, which are in old Sinhala language. Only a few from ...
The Rev. Chinnappa Pothireddy makes his way down the aisle at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Wilson Township, Minn., on Sunday, during the church's final service before it will be ...