Music

(OSV News) — A surprise new album from The Hillbilly Thomists — a band of Dominican friars whose music regularly hits the Billboard bluegrass charts — invites listeners to encounter God …

“It was a long audience that felt more like a conversation between two people discovering they were old friends, sharing memories.”

“The renewed presence of the Holy Father in our diocesan territory has filled our local Church and its people with joy,” Bishop Vincenzo Viva of Albano said.

“The solution is not to detain them” but “to create a pathway for them to go through the process and become citizens and continue to build this country.”

Taking the stage to greet the crowd was Cardinal José Cobo of Madrid, who began by reading a message from Pope Leo sent to those gathered.

“The Lord has clearly gifted them with the ability to play piano, and we wanted to find a way to give it back to the community.”

‘Bruce is a ‘Jersey guy’ through and through. It felt as though we’d known each other for years! I hope we can visit again,” Bishop O’Connell said.

Christmas carols in every language and culture are expressions of how music can convey “feelings and emotions, even the deepest movements of the soul,” Pope Leo XIV said at the …

Modeled on a lessons and carols format, Very Marian Advent invites Catholics to “wait with Mary” in prayer and song during the final weeks before Christmas

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV asked Canadian singer Michael Bublé and other artists to do their very best when performing a Christmas concert for the poor. The annual …