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Hymn society tournament reveals ‘greatest hymn of all time’

By Adelle M. Banks — July 19, 2019
(RNS) — More than 800 people, mostly members of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, voted during the competition that featured brackets similar to the springtime NCAA basketball tradition.

‘Greatest hymn’? Sacred song enthusiasts vote in ‘madness’ tournament

By Adelle M. Banks — July 5, 2019
(RNS) — Will it be 'Holy, Holy, Holy!'? Or how about 'How Great Thou Art?' Or one of six others in the Elite Eight that were announced on Tuesday?

Add basketball to Catholic colleges’ springtime rituals

By Michael Schulson — March 26, 2014
(RNS) Why are so many Catholic schools in the top ranks of NCAA men’s basketball? It may have a lot to do with the Irish potato famine, American nativism and 20th-century Italian demographics.
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