The historic Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University this week announced its official merger with the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Oriental Institute. The Gregorian announced on ...

Vartan Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87. “The ...

Tuesday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 434th anniversary of the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced on Oct. 4, 1582, by Pope Gregory XIII. The new calendar, introduced during the Renaissance, ...

Mark Lewis, S.J. (Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN Vatican, courtesy of Pontifical Gregorian University) Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part interview with Mark Lewis, S.J., the second Jesuit from ...

Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...

A medieval style of music has been enjoying great popularity for three decades now: the Gregorian chant. But the church musicians who make can't seem to stir up enthusiasm for contemporary pop music.

Then-NYPL President Vartan Gregorian with the original Winnie the Pooh animals donated by John Dyson to the NY Public Library in 1987. Arthur Pomerantz/New York Post Vartan Gregorian, a philanthropist ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Vartan Gregorian, educator, historian, philanthropist extraordinaire, was an irresistible and inspirational ...

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 ...