A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, made it debut on Billboard’s classical-music chart at No. 1 last week. The album, Benedicta, was also the top overall seller ...

Benedictine monks sing at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Bridgeport. Credit: The Monastery of the Holy Cross Nestled two miles from downtown Chicago in Bridgeport, a neighborhood that once had the ...

(RNS) If you loved the music of the Benedictine monks of Norcia in Italy -- and the Billboard charts say millions do -- then you'll love their beer, now available for purchase in the U.S. (RNS) The ...

(RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD, "Benedicta," debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s classical music chart last week (June 10). Why does chant have such a secular appeal? (RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD by a ...

The Met Goes Oceanic, Mayan, and Edo in the Reborn Rockefeller Wing Why We Still Whisper A Case for Science as an Ally of Faith Audio By Carbonatix Fr. Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the ...

When Father Jerome Molokie learned that his community’s newly released CD “Christmas at St. Michael’s Abbey: Chants for the Three Masses of Christmas” was on its second run of being duplicated, he ...

It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...

A motley crew that used to travel the country crooning ’50s and ’60s songs has since made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Hoping to ride on the coattails of the hugely successful Chant CD by ...

SOLESMES, France -- One of the tasks of Roger Server as mayor of this quaint village is to console misguided tourists who want to hear the monks in its 11th-century monastery singing in Gregorian ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...