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 ...

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 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 ...

(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 ...

The monks — from the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz (The Holy Cross) in the Vienna woods — were notified by a friend in London that Universal was on the look-out for a so-called Choralschola, a ...

On Continuum this week will be a special program devoted Gregorian Chant, from a ten-CD set of the History of Music. Specifically, this volume covers musical Europe in the era of Gregorian unification ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. All it took was an e-mail, and a group of 15 monks from a 12th-century Austrian monastery secured a recording contract with Universal ...

For centuries, Gregorian chants — unaccompanied singing traditionally done by monks and other male clerics in the early days of the Catholic Church — were written with “nuemes,” inflective notations ...

(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 ...

When Father Jerome Molokie learned that his community’s newly released CD “Christmas at St. Michael’s Abbey: Chants for the Three Masses of Christmas” was on its second run of being duplicated, he ...

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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 ...