The project’s founder and some recent participants discuss how ‘sacred music disposes our hearts and souls to encounter Christ in the sacred liturgy.’ Peter Carter directs a schola at Princeton ...

Jerry Francesco honors Lucille’s faith and legacy through sacred music, planned giving and support for St. Charles Borromeo ...

Singing and playing music during the liturgy is an integral and necessary part of the celebration, which means it is much ...

Sir James MacMillan, the foremost modern British composer and a forthright Catholic, says ‘music is the perfect art form to bring people together to see a better world.’ The music of Sir James ...

Music, indeed, is part of the liturgical action and is not merely a decorative part of the celebration,” Pope Leo said at ...

Longtime prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship invites Catholics to rediscover the true meaning of worship — not in aesthetic preference, but in Christ Himself SAN FRANCISCO — ...

"The ultimate purpose of sacred music is precisely that identified by Sacrosanctum Concilium: 'the glory of God and the ...

During his General Audience today, Pope Leo XIV reflected on sacred music in the liturgy, praising it for giving voice to prayer and expressing the faith, always with the main objective of glorifying ...

Pope Francis greets choir members during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square in a file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen Is contemporary Catholic church music “mediocre, superficial and ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...