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 ...

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 ...

So far, Pope Leo XIV has not addressed ongoing debates about restrictions on use of the Tridentine Mass, often called the “traditional Latin Mass.” Bishops around the world have been pulled into these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gregorian chant rose to prominence in the Catholic ... Mass has also provided a liturgical context for the new Gregorian chanters. Grove speaks about the importance of preserving this sacred music ...