This essay is adapted from Jeffrey’s new book, Sing Like a Catholic. The people who make modern inventions are often celebrated for improving our lives. But what about those one thousand years ago who laid the very technological foundation of civilization as we know it? They too served the world, but with the primary purpose of contributing to the faith. I’m thinking here of those who solved the architectural problem to build the great cathedrals of the middle ages, and the scientists of the period who took the first steps toward modern medical knowledge. Also we don’t often consider the … Continue reading The Monk Who Saved Music