Music

The Hillbilly Thomists have released their sixth album and will perform at the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage in September

Christine Rousselle

The official World Youth Day 2027 anthem, composed by Korean musician Francis Jiyoon Kim, has been released one year before the gathering in Seoul

Christine Rousselle

From Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ to Bach on the Aubertin organ, the St Birinus Festival brought together outstanding musicians, liturgy and ecumenical friendship in an Oxfordshire village

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed that the singer Bad Bunny was received by Pope Leo XIV during events in Madrid attended by hundreds of thousands of faithful

Thomas Colsy

A journey to Glyndebourne’s L’Orfeo prompts a meditation on Orpheus, Christ and the Christian promise of redemption against death

Kenneth Zammit Tabona

The internationally acclaimed Scottish composer has been appointed to Scotland’s highest order of chivalry in recognition of a distinguished career in music and public life

The Catholic Herald

Music has become increasingly passive in modern life, but the folk tradition offers Catholics a way to recover shared culture and fellowship through singing together

David Hahn

The fury of punk exposed the decay of post-war Britain, yet the movement left behind a cultural void it could not fill

Ruadhan Jones

Pentecost is not a feast of polite reflection but of holy disruption, and sacred music should recover something of that unsettling power

Simon Johnson

The St Birinus Festival at Dorchester Abbey seeks to restore sacred music to the liturgical setting for which it was composed

Dominic Bevan