Honoring the Sisters of St. Mary’s
For decades, the classrooms, halls, and convent of St. Mary’s School echoed with the dedication, faith, and occasional impish laughter of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM)
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Enduring Legacy in Akron
For generations, the faithful of Akron, Ohio, knew the voice of Fulton J. Sheen long before they ever saw his face. Through the crackle of radio static on the Catholic
The Popular Marian Hymn in Devotion and Liturgy
Introduction In his study The Popular Marian Hymn in Devotion and Liturgy, Fr. Thomas Thompson, SM identifies a “Marian vacuum” in the wake of the Second Vatican Council and proposes
The Voice of the Assumption: Rediscovering a Forgotten Catholic Hymn Tradition
This project began, quite simply, with a question. Over the years, as I worked with Catholic hymnals and spent time in choir lofts, I became aware that certain feasts, once
Interest Grows in AI Tools for “A Parish Inheritance”
Growing interest among Catholic musicians in the AI-assisted hymn analysis process originally featured in A Parish Inheritance: A Hymnological Study of St. Mary’s Parish has led to the creation of
Unlocking a Lost Tradition: A Four-Year Survey of Sacred Heart Hymnody
Introduction Over the last four years, I have surveyed hymns to the Sacred Heart of Jesus from my collection of Catholic hymnals. I have decided to present some of the