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Tone deaf and color blind? Catholic Church struggles to keep accused abusers out of religious art

BRUSSELS — Little brings more heavenly bliss to the faithful or otherworldly wonder to casual visitors than ethereal hymns cascading amid the columns of Catholic cathedrals. That is, unless the ...
Newsday

In the audience for a St. Anthony's High choral performance, the pope

Student choral singers from St. Anthony’s High School in South Huntington sang hymns to a papal audience Ash Wednesday at the Vatican — 80 guests of an enthused and animated fan down in front: Pope ...

RE in Northern Ireland is unlawful; Pope and Cinema; Nation’s Favourite School Hymn

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Northern Ireland's Christian-focused RE curriculum is unlawful. Since then, churches, politicians and schools there have been trying to make sense of the ...
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Hymns through masks: Christians mark another pandemic Easter

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with the faithful spaced apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter ...