Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

SOLESMES, France _ This tiny village abutting the river Sarthe boasts a single homestyle restaurant, several sleepy stone farmhouses and a tangle of apple-tree-studded country lanes as picturesque as ...

Located just two hours drive east of Tbilisi, Bodbe Monastery nestles between tall Cyprus trees on a steep hillside overlooking the Alezani valley, where it commands incredible views of the Great ...

If you drive about an hour and a half north of Santa Fe, N.M., into a place called the Chama Canyon, you might hear the clanging of church bells in the distance. The Monastery of Christ in the Desert ...

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 ...

It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...

A rare collection of medieval plainchant, preserved in the Buckland Book and linked to England’s last generation of monks before Henry VIII’s dissolution of monasteries, has been performed for the ...