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 ...

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TRAVERSE CITY — There’s a group that recently formed here in northern Michigan dedicated to singing Catholic hymns dating back centuries. The musical history of the Catholic Church includes hymns that ...

How would you like to be charged with getting 440 high-school students to not only sing Gregorian chant — but love it, too? That’s exactly what Brother Joshua DiMauro, of the Franciscan Missionary ...

Dominican Sister Cecilia Joseph, school principal at St. Peter Chanel primary school in Regents Park in Sydney, said a mother told her she was enjoying the "song" her young son was learning at school.

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Luke Massery, a native son of Pittsfield, who first learned to play the church organ as a teen parishioner at St. Mark's on West Street, is now a husband and a father of four and living in ...

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 ...