I have learned to take Christmas carols seriously and to anticipate the epiphanies they may bear in my spiritual life.

American pop star Sabrina Carpenter filmed her most recent music video in a Catholic church, but Catholic iconography has long been the basis for pop songs with sexual themes and erotic imagery.

At a Halloween festival with some 30,000 partygoers, Father Peixoto re-mixed electronic dance beats with words from Pope Francis’ encyclical about protecting the environment. “The people are dancing with sentences from ‘Laudato Si’.’”

Usually private about his personal life, Stevens dedicated the album to his “beloved partner,” who passed away in April.

With her release of the album “1989 (Taylor’s Version)”, Taylor Swift revisits the recording that transformed her from a star into a supernova, reflecting with joyful grace on the woman she was still becoming.

Heavy metal has the power to name the darkness in the world—the injustice, the suffering, but also the numinous.