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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

SOLESMES, France, April 5 — One of the tasks of Roger Server as mayor of this quaint village in western France is to console misguided tourists who want to hear the monks in its 11th-century monastery ...

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

Basil Nixen always felt a special closeness to God and now the Arizona native who became a monk is sharing that closeness with the rest of the world through a top-selling album of Gregorian chants.

French order opens abbey doors to allow what could be the largest recording project ever A monastery of Benedictine nuns living in seclusion in southern France has opened its doors to allow recordings ...

Buddhist monks at a monastery in the Indian Himalayas have won a Grammy award for their Tibetan chants. The monks' CD, Sacred Tibetan Chant: The Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery, won best traditional ...

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To artists like Beyonce, Eminem and Black Eyed Peas can now be added the name, the Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery. The monks' CD of Tibetan chants, recorded at their monastery in the Indian Himalayas, ...