Gregorian chants generally don't have too much in common with rock music. Sure, sometimes they set a brooding tone in an intro to a doom metal song, but rockers generally scream, growl, wail or sing.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis here, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit or stand; some face ...

As aging populations bring increased dementia diagnoses, the church must lead in developing both theological understanding ...

BETHLEHEM, Conn. — On a recent Monday at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, about 35 nuns gather in a dim chapel to chant, as they do every day at noon. Making their way through Psalm 118, the nuns sit or ...

The Benedictine Monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma have teamed up with De Montfort Music and Sophia Music Group to release a new album of Advent melodies that takes advantage of Apple’s new ...

An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...

DENTON, Neb. — At the sound of a tap, dozens of young men clad in black cassocks and white surplices rise from kneeling positions to watch two of their brother priests begin a chant. With a gentle ...

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 ...