BETHLEHEM, Conn. -- Five o'clock on a late-winter afternoon, and in a pine-paneled church on a Connecticut hillside, a bell tolls the sun's descent into the woods outside the picture windows. A door ...

Contemplation is a key element in most religious practices and in Catholicism it can be especially serene. Evensong is known as Vespers in the Roman Catholic tradition, a time of prayers, hymns, ...

In the cloistered world of classical music recordings, there is great interest in choral music by Catholic nuns these days. In the past year, two separate albums by a group of monastic nuns shot to ...

Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...

CHAMPAIGN – The hum of low-pitched voices is soothing. "Me ma ma ooh moo" sounds come from voices warming up. A Gregorian chant choir practices in the choir loft of Holy Cross Catholic Church every ...

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 ...

Jennifer Bain receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anna de Bakker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...