Acclaimed vocal ensemble Blue Heron performs a celebration of Christmas in 16th century Spain, from mystical motets to vivacious villancicos. The group’s artistic director, Scott Metcalfe, shares ...
Night fell dark, harsh, and cold. Mount Gilboa, in northern Israel, rose above the Jezreel Valley, about 25 kilometers from ...
The most exciting and authentic travel experiences right now are found in places without tourist hordes. Lesser-known gems ...
PENZANCE, England (RNS) — On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people gathered outside the Church of St. Buryan, an iconic medieval parish with a 92-foot granite tower that dominates the ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — It was music that revived a nearly empty Louisville church in the 1970s. Now that same church, the Shrine of St. Martin of Tours, hopes to keep singing but needs help to ...
Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine was credited with saying, “He who sings, prays twice.” Today, scientific research shows that he who sings, performs, or listens to music also enriches and ...
Longtime prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship invites Catholics to rediscover the true meaning of worship — not in aesthetic preference, but in Christ Himself SAN FRANCISCO — ...
An archaeological excavation in Turkey recently yielded a Roman hospital-turned-Christian sanctuary, offering new insight into centuries of ancient history. Anadolu Agency (AA), a state-run outlet in ...
Archaeologists from the University of Cádiz have made a remarkable discovery in the town of Teba, Málaga, uncovering what may be one of Andalusia's most monumental prehistoric tombs. The massive, ...
The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission. Mary Catherine Levri, associate professor ...
LOS CORTIJOS, Spain (AP) — The bells and bleats faded as Osam Abdulmumen, a migrant from Sudan, herded sheep back from pasture, the sun setting over a centuries-old farm in Spain’s arid heartland.