HEILIGENKREUZ, AUSTRIA — 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 ...

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 ...

The Benedictine Monks of Norcia spend their lives in prayer and labor – "ora et labora" – chanting the psalms and producing crafts to support themselves. This week, they also released an album meant ...

One of the great comforts in the weeks that followed my son's unexpected birth four weeks early was an album that arrived for me to review, Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia from the Monks of Norcia ...

New York – On June 2, De Montfort Music together with Decca Classics/Universal Music Classics will release BENEDICTA: Marian Chant from Norcia, the major label debut from The Monks of Norcia. Based in ...

The Benedictine Monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma have teamed up with De Montfort Music and Sophia Music Group to release a new album of Advent melodies that takes advantage of Apple’s new ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, made it debut on Billboard’s classical-music chart at No. 1 last week. The album, Benedicta, was also the top overall seller ...

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 ...

(RNS) If you loved the music of the Benedictine monks of Norcia in Italy -- and the Billboard charts say millions do -- then you'll love their beer, now available for purchase in the U.S. (RNS) The ...

The Met Goes Oceanic, Mayan, and Edo in the Reborn Rockefeller Wing Why We Still Whisper A Case for Science as an Ally of Faith Audio By Carbonatix Fr. Cassian Folsom is the founder and prior of the ...

PILTON (Reuters) - A farm in rural England turned into a mini tent city on Thursday as fans flocked to Glastonbury, the world's largest open-air music festival, where megastars like the Rolling Stones ...

Hong Dirienzo clasped her hands together and knelt with her face to the wooden floor of the Sawdust Art & Craft Festival’s Healy House as the guttural chanting of seven Tibetan monks rose around her, ...