Inside a nondescript building along the U.S. 190 service road that once housed a Mr. Fish pet store, there stands an opulent altar, surrounded by candles, majestic statues and floral bouquets. The ...

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 ...

The Gregorian chant, best known as the solemn music sung by robed monks of old, is enjoying a 21st-century revival — and the Twin Cities are at the heart of it this week. Experts and students of the ...

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, in its new document, “The Year of the Eucharist: Suggestions and Proposals,” released today in Italian, has encouraged familiarity ...

Now we have it from the highest source! Pope Benedict himself has urged the universal Church to revamp the use of Latin and to reintroduce Gregorian chant in the liturgy. A most fitting piece of ...

In his letter to Cardinal Joseph Höffner for the Seventh International Congress of Sacred Music, John Paul II praised the unifying power of Gregorian chant within Catholic liturgy because of its ...

SOLESMES, France, June 10 (UPI) -- The tiny village abutting the river Sarthe boasts a single homestyle restaurant, several sleepy stone farmhouses and a tangle of apple-tree-studded country lanes ...