Gregorian news

Happy New Year! I'm 29 days late for the Gregorian calendar but I'm still within the celebration of the Chinese New Year, which started Monday and...

Bishops and Religious Superiors from across the world will come to Rome in  February for the launch of the Catholic Church’s global initiative on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Towards Healing and Renewal is being offered by the Gregorian University in Rome and consists of a major symposium followed by the launch of a multi-institution e-learning centre which will

On Monday at Mizzou Arena in Columbia, SEC official Larry Templeton spoke about the possibility of Kansas City and St. Louis hosting conference basketball tournaments in the near future. According to Vahe Gregorian of STLtoday.com , the transition conference chair also stated that the Arkansas Razorbacks might end up becoming the divisional crossover rival for the Missouri Tigers . The SEC ...

Steven Ball, director of the University of Michigan's Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, shows a book of Gregorian chants from the 17th century in storage in Ann Arbor. Spanning centuries and continents, the instruments in the collection worth at least $25 million by their chief caretaker’s estimate are packed and stacked in an out-of-the-way storage room with water-stained ceilings. The ...

It seems that the Gregorian chant that hummed through the season about how the Lions needed to draft on the offensive line has subsided and I applaud this development.

Happy Gregorian Calendar new year everybody! Apologies for the absence. My first week back was only three days, so this Friday doesn't feel quite as deserved, but here goes.

The Gregorian calendar has served us well for centuries, but is there a better way to schedule our lives? A couple college professors certainly think so.

It's 2012 — time to throw out the 2011 calendar. But professors Richard Conn Henry and Steven Hanke say it's time to trash the Gregorian calendar altogether. The Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar would make holidays fall on the same day of the week each year. Wired 's Brandon Keim explains why he thinks the plan is not a good idea.

On Sunday, January 1, 2012, the University of Michigan kicked off their first game of the New Year on the Gregorian calendar, against the University of Minnesota. It was a great match to watch, and even though Michigan is ranked 18, while Minnesota is unranked, that did not stop...

Time is eternal, but methods of tracking it are not -- and so a Johns Hopkins University astronomer wants to replace the Gregorian calendar, with its leap years and floating dates and 15th-century effluvia, with a sleek and standardized system for the world.

When the Vatican switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in the 16th century, legend has it that riots broke out over the "lost 11 days" the shift caused.