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Pope Leo XIV Inspires a Rebirth of Gregorian Chant, by Maggie Gallagher – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Archbishop Cordileone with Canticle students

Maggie Gallagher, The Catholic Thing, August 18, 2025

Maggie Gallagher is the executive director of BenedictInstitute.org, founded by Archbishop Cordileone to promote more beautiful and reverent liturgy.

 

Leo XIV has done much in the first few months of his papacy to dispel damaging misconceptions about Gregorian chant rooted in ignorance of what Vatican II actually taught.

When he stood on the loggia of St. Peter’s in his very first public appearance, like a good Augustinian friar, he chanted the Regina Caeli, along with 100,000 people gathered from the four corners of the earth, speaking as many different languages as at the Tower of Babel.  Yet together they could spontaneously sing the ancient hymn – in Latin – at that historic moment, showing the value of recovering Latin as the common language of the Catholic Church. …

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