SOLESMES, France -- One of the tasks of Roger Server as mayor of this quaint village is to console misguided tourists who want to hear the monks in its 11th-century monastery singing in Gregorian ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mention “musical monks” to most people, and what they usually think of are Benedictine Friars singing Gregorian chants. But Catholicism isn’t the only faith with a monastic music tradition; Buddhist ...

(RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD, "Benedicta," debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s classical music chart last week (June 10). Why does chant have such a secular appeal? (RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD by a ...