The U.S. bishops voted to approve close to 300 new hymn texts for the Liturgy of the Hours. The Nov. 12 vote was 205-5 with two abstentions. The proposal needed two-thirds of the Latin-rite bishops to ...

A collection of medieval hymns perfect for Holy Week. This particular anthology of both Latin hymns and English translations was published in 2012, and after editorial kindness provided me with a copy ...

“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...

There’s a musical piece you’ve likely heard many times before—but unless you have a particularly trained ear and are also hip to the catalog of Medieval Latin hymns, you probably haven’t noticed it.

The Latin hymn ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ has been set by some of classical music’s best-loved composers, most famously by Mozart. ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, meaning ‘Hail true body’, is a Eucharistic hymn (holy ...

EVERYTHING in the Lithuanian garden is rosy, for the present at least. It's not rosy-red, of course, and that is part of the reason for the joyous celebratory atmosphere which existed in Vilnius this ...

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., looks over material before the start of the second day of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 12, ...