Last week, I posted a little item on The Exsultet — and by happy coincidence, the good folks at Catholic News Service have issued a series of stories and videos on the subject of Gregorian chant. It ...

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 ...

In his recent motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, Pope Francis called the Novus Ordo Mass the “unique expression of the lex orandi of the Roman Rite.” But he did not state his intention that ...

It took them half a century, but the Cistercian nuns of St. Mary’s Abbey in Wrentham, Mass., are back on the music charts. Their CD of beautiful Gregorian chant — To Pray in Beauty — came out earlier ...

Gregorian Chant. The name is often taken as synonymous with plain chant (q.v.), comprising not only the Church music of the early Middle Ages, but also later compositions (elaborate melodies for the ...

"It was not without reason that the ancestors and prophets wanted nothing else to be associated as closely with the Word of God as music," Martin Luther once said. There are places where the choir is ...