The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) explains on its website that the liturgical year is made up of six times or seasons: Advent, Christmas, Lent, the paschal Triduum, Easter, and ...

Helping to mold young children into good Christians striving to be saints seems especially daunting on some days, when the dishes sit in the sink unwashed, laundry piles up awaiting folding, and my ...

I write liturgical songs, both music and words, and a few years ago I did a project centered on the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany cycle. There were many classic themes to explore—hope, waiting, ...

The Archdiocese of Manila has issued its guidelines for this year’s “Simbang Gabi,” the nine-day series of evening and dawn ...

Is widespread ad orientem — toward the [liturgical] east — celebration of the Holy Mass the future? Not immediately so, but there are reasons to think that it may indeed become so over the next 10 to ...

Other than sex, nothing is more heatedly debated by Catholics than the liturgy. Everyone has strong opinions based on years of personal experience. In the 1960s and '70s, Pope Paul VI implemented ...

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 ...

Sometime soon, the Vatican is expected to release a motu proprio, meaning a legal document under the pope’s authority, which will transfer responsibility for an aspect of marriage law from one Vatican ...

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Abbot John Klassen, OSB, is pleased to announce that Therese L. Ratliff, PhD, will be the next director and chief executive officer of Liturgical Press, the publishing apostolate ...

Liturgical music seems to go in a different direction every decade or so. After the Second Vatican Council, the acoustic guitar came into favor. A generation later, the flowery “Kumbaya” aesthetic of ...