After a concert of 16th- and 17th-century music recently, the pope said he would prefer to hear Gregorian chant ... music to Catholic churches. Just as the Latin Mass almost immediately ...

The Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music said this week it is launching its “Let’s Sing with the Pope” initiative.

McDonnell, director of the Institute of Sacred Music at The Catholic University of America in Washington. Gregorian chant was standard in the Mass in the 1950s, but fell out of favor after the ...

Priests who valued the chant yet didn't use it during Mass ... Gregorian chant is just that, he said: putting to music all these Latin liturgical texts that form the backbone of the Catholic ...

“The big deal with Gregorian chant is not only as a style of music the texts, the propers,” said Richard C. Clark, director of music for the Archdiocese of Boston. “This is our Catholic ...

An important component of Schuler’s approach to church music were Gregorian ... as Vatican II, the Catholic church made sweeping reforms, including permitting parts of Mass to be conducted ...

Shawn McKnight listed a dozen commonly used but “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs ... Mass” — the antiphons, psalms, and alleluias specific to each liturgical day, often sung in ...

It would probably come as a shock to many people today, but Gregorian ... various forms of music that have developed from them. This centrality of the official music of the Catholic Church forms ...

They sing Gregorian chants in Latin ... here,” student Logan Nelson said of the dedicated Catholic space where he attends daily Mass. “It feels like a home — even more so than my own ...