This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself ...

Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...

Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...

Mary Ratterman St. Philippine Duchesne For centuries, Gregorian chant was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church. Popes Piux X, Pius XII and the documents of Vatican II have all ...

Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, whose CD of Gregorian chants has become a runaway hit. After its European release in ...

An abbey of French Benedictine nuns is taking part in the largest recording project in history, bringing the complete Gregorian chant to the modern world and breathing new life into an extraordinary 1 ...

To this day, Gregorian chant remains at the bedrock of the Latin mass, as well as the development of Western music overall. After the organist’s prelude and a hymn for the whole congregation ...

Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...

They bow toward the altar and to the abbess, then take their places in the choir stalls. Gregorian chants give each day in this cloistered monastery its spine and shape. The nuns sing together ...

But the most perplexing hit, both then and now, arrived 25 years ago today. Chant was an album of Gregorian chants recorded decades earlier by Spain’s Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos.

Gregorian chant holds a place in popular imagination as the province of hooded monks intoning monotonous melodies along dim stone corridors. It's not like that. At St. Stephen's Catholic Church in ...

This concert includes a stunning blend of traditional chants and contemporary music compiled from the Gregorian concert DVDs. The high-quality production features spectacular lighting and sound ...