Ater a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Sacred Music Festival is making a highly anticipated return for its eighth year. This free, day-long event celebrates spiritual traditions ...

For American composer J.J. Wright, the Second Vatican Council's call to inculturate the Church's ancient musical traditions into "mission territory" – while preserving its unity – is something he has ...

The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission. Mary Catherine Levri, associate professor ...

Music can also help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, which, in up to 95% of cases, can be driven by nongenetic factors. Neuroscientist Kathlyn Gan says research shows music can help counter ...

Cardinal Robert Sarah, a longtime Vatican official, told a filled St. Agatha-St. James Church Nov. 21 that some forms of ...

Sacred music is "integral" to the Catholic Church's liturgy, Bishop Alexander K. Sample said in a Feb. 13 pastoral letter to the people of the Diocese of Marquette. "In any discussion of the...'art of ...

Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer ...

The public is invited to attend free concerts of sacred music at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. on Sundays at 3 p.m. The Dec. 3 concert will feature music for the ...

Celestial Sirens, an a cappella singing trio, will present a free concert of sacred music at 7:30 p.m. today at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 18 Lincoln Ave. The program includes medieval music ...