Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Va. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely scriptural.

I have purchased and listen often to many recordings of liturgical music: Gregorian chant, English Recusant polyphony, the great Counter-Reformation polyphonic works of Victoria, Palestrina, Gesualdo, ...

The Beatles sang it, the Benedictine monks took it to the best-sellers’ list. Hey Jude and the Gregorian chants were literally refreshing music to the ears when they first appeared. But for the first ...

Teens participate in a chant camp in Benicia, Calif. (Credit: Photo courtesy of the Benedict XVI Institute via CNA.) Listen SAN FRANCISCO – An initiative in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to form ...

Existing for over a thousand years and still practised today, Gregorian chant is one of the most sophisticated forms of sacred music. It is not only the chant of the Church, but also the chant of the ...

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 ...

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 a delightful scene in Ang Lee’s splendid comic film Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, the oldest sister of the Taiwanese family at the center of the story, a recently converted and fervent Christian, ...

In the last issue of America, Rachel Lu and Matthew Cortese, S.J., reflected on how Catholics can make the liturgy more reverent. The two shared insights informed by their experiences of Masses ...