BOSTON (CBS) – Sunday's mass in Philadelphia is the biggest, most public event of Pope Francis' visit to America, with over a million people expected to pack the city. During the event, the work of a ...

As the sound of drums, tambourines and Swahili hymns reverberated through St. Andrew's Church, Elizabeth Muturi and fellow parishioners swayed their arms and hips, dancing down the aisle with the Book ...

VATICAN CITY-- With a hymn and a prayer, Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella presented the Vatican's initial calendar of events for the Year of Faith, which begins with an Oct. 11 Mass in St. Peter's ...

Why it's a good choice: This wonderful text is ideally suited for a baptism, with its focus on our hope on God and all the wonders that he offers us. The words of this hymn were written around 1630 ...

Music brings people together, it wakes them up and calms them down, it can be a source of great comfort and solidarity This is the time of year for several special services. First Communions, ...

Legendary composer Irving Berlin wrote his iconic God Bless America for a musical revue while in the Army during World War I, but he shelved it. One hundred years later, it turns out his patriotic ...

The Fourth of July is a good time for some stirring patriotic songs. But more than stirring emotions, such songs reflect the religious roots of our country. America, America the Beautiful, God Bless ...

Elizabeth Muturi, center, dances during an Aug. 11, 2019, Swahili Mass at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Muturi, who grew up attending Mass in Kenya, said the sights and sounds of ...