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 ...

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at ...

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 ...

The latest sensation on the world's pop charts is 800-years-old. Gregorian chants performed by the Cistercian monks of Austria's Heiligenkreuz Abbey. (Soundbite of Gregorian Chants) SEABROOK: Monks ...

CHICAGO -- A siren screamed down 31st Street as six men faced one another in a dim church and began to chant. They chanted standing up. They chanted bent over. Above a thumping bass from a passing car ...

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 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, whose CD of ...

A couple of days ago, Yami Gautam dropped a series of pictures on Instagram from her visit to Thiksey Monastery. The opening frame captured her standing inside the Buddhist shrine. She folded her ...

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at ...