The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

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• Richard Morris:

  The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pas

• Richard Morris:

  And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman

• Richard Morris:

  Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.

• Richard Morris:

  Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with

• Richard Morris:

  There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

• Richard Morris:

  Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

• Richard Morris:

  Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

• Richard Morris:

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

• Richard Morris:

  You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Ca

• Richard Morris:

  But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.