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 ...

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 Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, is astonishing. From the outside, it appears as though a spaceship decided to land on the banks of Lake Merritt, while the interior reminds ...

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The de Angelis Vocal Ensemble launched its 11th season Saturday afternoon at the Mission Basilica in San Juan Capistrano with an engaging program of music spanning many hundreds of years. Founder and ...

Michigan's rustic Upper Peninsula is roughly three-quarters forest. Marquette Bishop John Doerfler, who came to upper Michigan in 2014 from the diocese of Green Bay, Wis., wants to hear the woods echo ...

In celebration of its 50th anniversary and in advance of the public reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in France, the Gregorian Choir of Paris is launching its inaugural U.S. tour this weekend — an ...

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 ...