On June 17, Father Pierre Nguyễn Kim Long — composer of the iconic “Prayer of Peace” and over 3,500 hymns — passed away at 84. His death is not only a loss for Vietnamese sacred music but the end of ...

A choir from Fort Portal Diocese sings at the Catholic shrine in Namugongo, Wakiso District, during commemoration of Uganda Martyrs’ Day in 2022. PHOTO/MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI Francis Muwonge, the ...

Kate Basi, a liturgical composer and member of the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Choir in Columbia, Mo., is seen in this undated photo. On June 8, 2022, the Association of Catholic Publishers named her ...

If you attend a Memorial Day ceremony this year, chances are you will hear “On Eagle’s Wings,” which is based on the text of ...

I am a cradle Catholic. I was born after the Mass of St. Paul VI was already well established. I grew up familiar with hymns like On Eagle’s Wings and The King of Glory, and I enthusiastically sang ...

Program director Michael Roberts demonstrates the Great Catholic Music app for listeners. Great Catholic Music, an audio web streaming service, is a project of the Living Bread Radio Network, a group ...

Inspired by the shrine’s history and mission, the new hymn invites pilgrims to reflect on Our Lady’s message and maternal protection. Choir members rehearse the new hymn honoring Our Lady of Champion, ...

On Sunday mornings when I was growing up in Mississippi, my father, Warren Eubanks, a slender man with skin the color of warm caramel, would take a black and gray Sears Silvertone record player and ...

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 ...

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...