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 ...

Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That’s how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has stormed pop music charts ...

For 40 years, the Rev. Gyoro Nagase has overseen a temple to peace in a popular park in Battersea, his ever-present drum by his side. The Rev. Gyoro Nagase, 74, on a peace march this month in ...

Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...