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 ...

BBC news recently reported that a group of Cistercian monks will join rank with Eminem and Amy Winehouse under the Universal Music record label. Recently, the label placed advertisements in magazines ...

Since 1183, seven times a day starting at 5:15 a.m., the monks at Austria’s monastery of Heiligenkreuz have been singing Gregorian chant, in unison and in Latin. They recorded this disc, they write, ...

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 ...

The monks have recorded several chant albums since 2008, when Universal Records approached them and talked them into the first one. All of them have been “hits,” popular with traditional Catholics, ...