Video: Cardinal Dolan’s pro-life, pro-family prayer rocks the Democratic...
by Ben Johnson CHARLOTTE, September 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The full text of Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s prayer at the Democratic National Convention is as follows: With a ‘firm reliance on the...
View ArticlePope Arrives in Beirut as "Pilgrim of Peace"– Full Text
By Edward Pentin | In his arrival speech in Beirut, Pope Benedict XVI said he had "come symbolically to all the countries of the Middle East as a pilgrim of peace, as a friend of God and as a friend of...
View Article‘Wife of Jesus’ fragment no threat to Christianity
Denver, Colo., Sep 20, 2012 / 01:49 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A scrap of Egyptian papyrus that might depict Jesus with a wife has drawn media attention, but a scripture professor says it should not affect...
View ArticlePro-lifers using text messaging to save lives
by Shawn Carney - 40 Days for Life October 5, 2012 (40DaysforLife.com) - Nothing is more powerful in saving lives than prayer and fasting. But in addition to that, 40 Days for Life campaigns are adding...
View ArticleVatican Intervenes: No More Tropes in the Agnus Dei
The Vatican has intervened in the guidelines for Catholic liturgical music in the U.S.. It has sent a messages to U.S. publishers that it objects to extending the official text of the Agnus Dei to add...
View ArticleReport on the Manchester Chant Workshops
This past weekend I was in Manchester, NH, at the invitation of the Diocesan Office of Worship, and His Excellency Bp. Peter Libasci, Bishop of Manchester. I gave three workshops in total: Two...
View ArticleVisita Quaesumus by William Byrd
It is customary in music to speak of the three B's----Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All of these composers have given us inexhaustible works of art; even so, I would like to propose that we add a fourth...
View ArticleThe Blessed of the Day
During the mourning period for Blessed Pope John Paul II, I wrote this hymn text, which can be sung to Rendez a Dieu (most commonly used for Father, We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted). Staff of a shepherd...
View ArticleGive Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death
In the political season we are engaging in currently, with its frequently petty back and forth, it is easy, all too easy, to lose sight of the great principles on which this country was founded. As a...
View ArticleHow to Read Liturgically
I’ve put off writing this column for years even though it addresses a point that is a major and persistent problem in liturgy. I’ve put off writing about it because the people I’m correcting here are...
View ArticleAntra deserti teneris: A Hymn to St. John the Baptist
One of the most famous among the chant hymns is the source of the do-re-mi solfege system, Paul the Deacon's hymn to the Advent figure St. John the Baptist, Ut queant laxis resonare fibris. The...
View ArticleMsgr. Wadsworth’s Address to the St. Gregory Society
Making the most of the Missal Challenges and Opportunities in the implementation of the English Translation of the Third Typical Edition The 2012 Crichton Lecture by Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth to the...
View Article"Hey, I know this song!"
During their discussion of the revision of the revisions of the breviary earlier this week, some bishops expressed a concern that it would be insufficient to include only English translations of Latin...
View ArticleA Music Set Apart
The offertory chant for this Sunday is the famous text “De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine; Domine, exaudi vocem meam.” From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.. The text...
View ArticleThe Sound of Delight is "L"
I've mentioned here before that my basic method of writing hymns involves letting a tune run through my head and letting the words sort of write themselves. It's not exactly that simple, as this...
View ArticleA Wednesday abortion
by Alex vande Bruinhorst December 13, 2012 (ReformedProlifer) - Sunday night, quarter after eleven. I’m almost sleeping when the familiar chime of a text message startles me awake. Who is texting me...
View ArticleEuthanasia ‘trivialized’ in Belgium: report by bioethics institute
by Michael Cook December 14, 2012 (Bioedge) - Belgium legalised euthanasia in 2002, with a law containing strict controls to protect the vulnerable. (This is the text of the law in English.) The...
View ArticleSocialist Uruguay on road to homosexual and transsexual ‘marriage’
by Matthew Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent December 19, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly voted last week to approve a bill that would make “marriage” a...
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Protesting the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time
In 3 weeks the "little Vatican" area surrounding Catholic University will be filled with pro-life demonstrators, pilgrims coming from all over the United States to protest on the anniversary of the...
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