Jaime Cortez, who was born in New York and raised in El Salvador, has engaged in multicultural music ministry throughout his career, collaborating with peers on a number of projects — including “Gracia y Amor/Grace and Love,” a collection with Hurd and Eleazar Cortés, and “Our Common Home.”

A Catholic comedian who had multiple live show dates scheduled from October through January for a national tour announced Oct. 15 she had canceled the appearances.

November, being the month of All Souls, is a time when many choirs (ecclesiastical and secular alike) perform music centered on the faithful departed. Local music lovers will have a chance to experience it when the Baltimore Basilica — America’s first cathedral — hosts Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. a one-night-only performance of Mahler’s Titan Symphony and Duruflé’s Requiem.

The northwestern French city of Nantes waited for this moment for five long years and on Sept. 27, reopened its cathedral after the 2020 arson attack. The church celebrated with local and state officials present, and topped its reopening with ballet dancers flying on the cathedral’s square.

A Catholic high school boys’ choir from Chicago made it to the top five on the season finale of “America’s Got Talent” Sept. 24, prompting a message of pride and encouragement from Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich.

Over a century in the making, the Tower of Jesus Christ, designed by famed Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, will soon crown the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, making it the tallest Catholic Church in the world.

A new 25-foot-high mural that covers the walls of the entrance to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and was officially dedicated during Mass Sept. 21 celebrates New York’s sacred and secular history.

After 800 years of silence, the pipes from the oldest organ in Christendom played again, filling the reception hall of Jerusalem’s Franciscan Monastery of St. Saviour with the unique sound of the 11th-century liturgical chant, Benedicamus Domino Flos Filius.

Francesca LaRosa, who recently took home a Catholic Music Award for Best New Singer in Rome for her song “My Soul Proclaims,” made her own unique journey through the psalms that brought new life and a song honoring the joyful words of Mary in the “Magnificat.”

Sydney newlyweds James Lu and Fiona Choi ticked off some unusual items on their Europe vacation list: wedding clothes and shoes along with an Akubra hat and Pope Leo XIV’s estimated head size.