Pope Francis greets choir members during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square in a file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen Is contemporary Catholic church music “mediocre, superficial and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edward Lally has loved traditional liturgical music ever since he attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago in the 1960s. He did not continue on to the priesthood, but his passion for early ...

I am a cradle Catholic. I was born after the Mass of St. Paul VI was already well established. I grew up familiar with hymns like On Eagle’s Wings and The King of Glory, and I enthusiastically sang ...

Two hundred and fifty of Sister Cecilia's students are taking part in the Jubilate Deo program, which seeks to teach Gregorian chant to thousands of school students in the Archdiocese of Sydney, as ...

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Gregorian chant holds a place in popular imagination as the province of hooded monks intoning monotonous melodies along dim stone corridors. Teens sing wearing Vans or boots poking out from beneath ...