The Chronicle of Higher Education

Rock in a Hard Place

What's the pope's favorite heavy-metal station?

If you guessed WSOU-FM (89.5) at Seton Hall University, you'd be wrong, but only because the Holy Father's tastes tend toward Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony. Rock music, Pope Benedict XVI once declared, is "the vehicle of anti-religion."

Clearly His Holiness has not tuned in...

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