Missouri Diocese Opens Sacred Music Consultation Process After Hymn ‘Bans’ Rescinded

Missouri diocese opens sacred music consultation process after hymn ‘bans’ rescinded

Credit: Igor Bulgarin/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, has opened a new yearlong “synodal” consultation process on sacred music after a now-rescinded decree from the bishop last fall... [...]

Missouri diocese opens sacred music consultation process after ‘bans’ rescinded

Credit: Igor Bulgarin/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Feb 6, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, has opened a new yearlong “synodal” consultation process on sacred music after a now-rescinded decree from the bishop last fall banning certain hymns from Mass led to a flurry of debate in the diocese and elsewhere. In a late January letter, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight said the goal of the process is a new, permanent decree on sacred…

Missouri Diocese Opens Sacred Music Consultation Process After Hymn ‘Bans’ Rescinded

Tsuguliev Choir sings in a cathedral. In his original decree last October, Bishop McKnight listed a dozen commonly used contemporary hymns that were to be “absolutely forbidden” in the diocese after Nov. 1, 2024.