JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Uplifting, strengthening, calming: All three are words to describe music in the Black church. Duval Schools Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene says singing in the choir was part of ...

Ask any Christian, and they’re likely to tell you their earliest experiences of religion are ones of music. The memories of voices swelling with song or a grandmother softly humming a favorite tune ...

Church songs need to be true, not necessarily catchy. When training preachers, I remind them that terribly delivered sermons do not do any lasting damage. If a message is confusing, badly structured, ...

Not so long ago, Paul Savageau was earning extra cash playing folk-rock cover songs at Massachusetts nightclubs. Then he “got real with God.” Shortly after, he began playing at Sunday Mass, leading ...

Students from St. Martin of Tours School in Amityville, N.Y., sing with the children’s choir during a Mass marking the opening of “Celebrate Catholic Schools Week” at St. Martin of Tours Church Jan.

In late 2020, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—a body whose pronouncements I tend to ignore and, often, actively avoid—published a document about the use of music during the Mass. The ...