What is “good” Mass music? As a parish music director, I have often pondered this question. The Church gives clear instructions concerning the implementation of music within the Mass. For instance, the Church stipulates that the most important thing to be sung is the dialogue between the priest and the people: the Order of the…
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Immigrants at Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley humanitarian respite center in McAllen, Texas. / Credit: Vic Hinterlang/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Feb 19, 2025 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Local Catholic Charities agencies across the country are being forced to lay off staff and weigh shutting down programs in the wake of the Trump administration’s…
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Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of Mandalay ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 19, 2025 / 17:20 pm (CNA). Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, a 44-year-old diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Mandalay in Myanmar, was killed Feb. 14 in the midst of the civil war that has plunged the…
Above: the burying of the Alleluia. Each year Lent almost sneaks up on our busy family. But in her wisdom Mother Church has provided a reminder for preparation and discernment for the coming of Lent in the Season of Septuagesima or Shrovetide. Shove is the past tense of the word shrive which means to confess…
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Left: Banners at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital. Right: Pope Francis waves from a wheelchair, Feb. 13, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Feb 19, 2025 / 14:20 pm (CNA). Pope Francis’ health condition has remained stable as he continues a stay in the hospital, though recent bloodwork showed a “slight improvement,” the Vatican said…
