For generations, Catholics had to navigate their way around the Index of Forbidden Books. Now, some Catholics will have to do the same with the Index of Forbidden Music, Liturgical Division. Bishop W.

“Good morning. Please open your Gather hymnal to number 611, ‘On Eagle’s Wings.’ Number six-one-one.” So many a Catholic Mass begins, prompting weary sighs from the traditionalists in the pews. In the ...

A woman prays during a Black History Month Mass of thanksgiving Feb. 28, 2021, at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Lead me, guide me, along the way. For ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

I don't think we should go back to using hymnals. But I do think there's value in considering what we lost when, over the course of a relatively short period of time, we gave up hymnals for PowerPoint ...

A Catholic composer has lost his copyright infringement lawsuit against a fellow songwriter and a publishing company after a jury found that he did not prove that his work had been unlawfully copied ...