“With each verse, the lyrics of ‘Make Me a Channel of Your Peace ... by Charles Hubert Hasting Parry. The origin of the hymn ...

The upright piano was old and out of tune, but James Linzey couldn’t resist the urge to stop and touch the keys. Sitting in ...

Less than a week after the bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, blacklisted a dozen liturgical hymns, he rescinded the decree.

But a notable number of churches are making that choice, choosing the printed page over lyrics ... a church could make for itself,” said Kreider. “That stuck with me. He was speaking of hymns ...

In an Oct. 24 decree, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs that ...

Pornography was accidentally shown on big screens during a children’s harvest church service. Year 2 pupils from Hornsea ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City decreed Oct. 28 that a dozen hymns no longer be used at churches in his ...

Many of the prohibited titles appeared in a 2020 report from the USCCB’s doctrine committee, “Catholic Hymnody at the Service ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, who earlier prohibited specific hymns and composers, has now issued a new decree ...

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, had listed a dozen contemporary hymns to be “forbidden” ...

The Catholic Church has a long and beautiful tradition of music and singing in the liturgy, and of assessing hymns according ...

The document notes that “over the years, concerns have been raised regarding the lyrics of hymns and songs used ... music in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying he views it as an “invitation ...