NORWALK -- Parishioners of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church assembled in a courtyard Sunday morning to witness the blessing of palm fronds by a priest in a traditional Latin-language rite, accompanied ...

‘Hymns that are liked by the people are a good choice, but it’s also important that they convey the Catholic faith,’ said Archbishop Shawn McKnight. Scene from the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress ...

It's not exactly the "Ode to Joy," but a new hymn believed to be by Beethoven has surfaced in Berlin. An English academic found the the 192-year-old piece in a sketchbook. Barry Cooper found the ...

A modern take on Gregorian chant, four singers, and a stairwell encounter that’s beyond words. Sometimes the most beautiful things are the simplest. Gathered in a resonant stairwell, four men sang a ...

Timothy S. McDonnell, director of music ministries at the Institute of Sacred Music, Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington, conducts an Oct. 10 Gregorian ...

The Gregorian Choir of Paris will perform in select malls from February 18 until February 27, 2015. Just in time for the start of the Lenten Season, the Gregorian Choir of Paris brings the tradition ...

For almost two thousand years, Christians have used music as a way to worship. In the Bible the Apostle Paul writes: “Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.” The word “hymn" ...

A member of St. Mary Church in Norwalk prays the staions of the cross at the Palm Sunday mass. Hour photo/Matthew Vinci March 29, 2015 Matthew Vinci ...