News

Interviews, profiles, and writing

• 2025
  To Open the Door of Beauty to God: the Institute's MissionAleteia
  
• 2025
  Frank La Rocca: The Composer Who Turns Faith into MusicHuxley
  Huxley
• 2024
  Archbishop Cordileone to Bring the Mass of the Americas to the Guadalupe ShrineNational Catholic Register
  
• 2024
  A Review of Frank La Rocca's Missa Pange LinguaCatholic Arts Today, Sarah Maria Craig Penner
  
• 2024
  Stanzas for the Chinese MartyrsBenedict XVI Institute
  
• 2024
  Messe des Malades Brings the Graces of Lourdes to an Oakland CathedralNational Catholic Register, Thomas Greerty
  
• 2024
  Requiem for the Forgotten and Messe des Malades, reviewedFanfare, James A. Altena
  
• 2024
  Requiem for the Forgotten and Messe des Malades, reviewedAmerican Record Guide, Philip Greenfield
  
• 2024
  Historic Requiem for the Forgotten Mass to Premiere in MiamiCatholic News Agency, in the National Catholic Register
  
• 2024
  Seeing the Forgotten as God DoesArchdiocese of Miami
  Archdiocese of Miami
• 2023
  Mass of the Americas Featured in the Wall Street JournalCatholic Institute of Sacred Music
  
• 2023
  Composer Frank La Rocca Discusses His Latest Composition, Messe des MaladesNational Catholic Register, Joan Frawley Desmond
  
• 2023
  Honoring Our Lady of Lourdes: A New Healing Mass for a Broken WorldNational Catholic Register, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
  
• 2023
  Sacred Music and Its Contribution to the LiturgyFaith and Leadership podcast, Caritas Media, with Gerry Jacob
  Faith and Leadership podcast
• 2023
  Catholic Art in a Secularized World: Meet Dana Gioia and Frank La RoccaReligion Unplugged, Roseanne T. Sullivan
  Religion Unplugged
• 2022
  Evangelizing Through Sacred BeautyNational Catholic Register
  
• 2022
  Modern Sacred Music at Its Best: the Mass of the AmericasOnePeterFive, Mark Nowakowski
  
• 2022
  Frank La Rocca's Mass of the Americas Is Finally RecordedAleteia
  
• 2022
  Frank La Rocca and Richard Sparks on the Mass of the AmericasPresto Music
  Presto Music
• 2022
  Defending St. Junípero Serra with Holy Water, the Rosary, and the ArtsBenedict XVI Institute, Roseanne T. Sullivan
  
• 2022
  Modern Sacred Music at Its BestCalifornia Catholic Daily
  California Catholic Daily
• 2021
  "Mass of the Americas" and the Flourishing of Religious CultureDappled Things
  
• 2019
  A Review of the Mass of the AmericasOnePeterFive
  
• 2019
  Intimations of Immortality in the AmericasThe Catholic Thing
  
• 2019
  Witness the Breathtaking Mass of the Americas in Washington, D.C.Aleteia, exclusive photos
  
• 2019
  Dr. William Mahrt on the Mass of the AmericasNew Liturgical Movement
  
• 2018
  Frank La Rocca's Search for the Sacred (Part 1)Benedict XVI Institute, Maggie Gallagher
  
• 2018
  Interview with Sir James MacMillanCatholic Arts Today, by Frank La Rocca
  
• 2018
  The Crucifix and the Crack in the Door (Part 2)Benedict XVI Institute, Maggie Gallagher
  
• 2018
  Frank La Rocca Comes Home (Part 3)Benedict XVI Institute, Maggie Gallagher
  
• 2016
  Ever Ancient, Ever NewCatholic World Report, interview
  
• 2016
  Conversion Through Art: The Music of Frank La RoccaOnePeterFive
  
• 2016
  Sacred Music and the Vocation of the ComposerCatholic World Report, Carl E. Olson