On June 17, Father Pierre Nguyễn Kim Long — composer of the iconic “Prayer of Peace” and over 3,500 hymns — passed away at 84. His death is not only a loss for Vietnamese sacred music but the end of ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, has opened a new yearlong “synodal” consultation process on sacred music after a now-rescinded decree from the bishop last fall banning certain hymns from Mass ...

Five hundred years after Martin Luther and a colleague published their first hymnal, Princeton Theological Seminary Professor Emeritus Paul Rorem has written a book that provides what his publisher ...

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The music director at Victor’s St. Patrick Church composed a hymn and choral anthem to mark the church building’s centennial.

Centuries ago in the rolling hills of northeastern Scotland, the sound of harmonized hymns echoing from chapels and cathedrals would mark the season of Lent. Some 500 years later, however, the musical ...