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The Catholic Church is being criticized after a priest was stripped of his administrative duties for allowing singer and actor Sabrina Carpenter to film a music video in a Brooklyn church, with many ...

For decades, there's been concern in many corners of the Church that Catholic music is in crisis. Much of the critique of contemporary liturgical music lies in the reforms of the Second Vatican ...

Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...

When the Second Vatican Council called for the change of the liturgy from Latin into the languages of the various nations — and encouraged the “music of the people” to enter into liturgies — the event ...

Mary Anne Tupa has rarely skipped a beat in six decades of playing piano and organ during Sunday Mass at Grand Forks' Holy Family Catholic Church. The only time Tupa, 94, has taken a break from ...

Based at a former steel ship casting factory here, in a city known more for its ecological awareness and hipness than for organized religion, Oregon Catholic Press (OCP) sends out its church music ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Jan. 23, 1982 edition of America. Numberless things liturgical have changed for the better since Vatican II. Should you have any doubt of the ...

Sabrina Carpenter hits back at her Catholic Church music video controversy, says "Jesus was a carpenter"Marcelo Endelli/TAS23/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Sabrina Carpenter isn't too ...