If you listen to that hymn and understand the Latin words, you recognize it as romantic prayer: Aquinas adoring and ...

This year the Catholic Church is living between two great Jubilees of St. Thomas Aquinas — the 750th of his death (1274) and the 800th of his birth (1225). His philosophical and theological works are ...

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 ...