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“Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.”

Richard Morris

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The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

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The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

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For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands…

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When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

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All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

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Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

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Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

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Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

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It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

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“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But this time the torture surpassed the bounds of the endurable. At the same time the thermometer hovered between 5 and 15 degrees below zero. From morning till night we scraped, shoveled, and pushed wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of snow…

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