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MORE ON THE 'LITURGICAL REVOLUTION'

The newspaper's headline below is, as usual, misleading - as though the Pope wre moving in on modern music in general. It's the sort of thing, unfortunately, that keeps giving the public at large a wrong impression of Pope Benedict - many people never go beyond the headline and even if they do, the headlien is usually what they retain.


Why the Pope is right to purge modern music
By Damian Thompson
'Holy Smoke' (blog)
Daily Telegraph (UK)
11/20/07



Church music in Italy is generally atrocious, and the Vatican is no exception.

Since he arrived in Rome nearly 30 years ago, the music-loving Joseph Ratzinger has had to endure the sub-operatic warbling of bad 20th-century music. Now he has had enough.

The Pope, who last year appointed a new choir director of St Peter's, wants Gregorian chant, polyphony and baroque masterpieces to dominate the repertoire in the basilica and the Sistine chapel. And, by making his preferences clear, he is sending out a message to the whole Catholic Church.

We are moving into an era of liturgical revolution. Benedict detests the feeble "folk Masses" that have remained the staple fare of Catholic worship long after they went out of musical fashion.

He wants the Church to rediscover the treasure of its heritage - and that includes Gregorian chant as well as the pre-1970 Latin Mass that can now be celebrated without the permission of bishops.

The old guard of trendy choir directors and composers (many of whom have signed lucrative contracts with dioceses) will fight his reforms every inch of the way, egged on by philistine bishops.

But younger church musicians, like young priests, are conservative in their tastes.

The next generation of choir directors have been charged by the Pope with the task of reintroducing beautiful music into church. If they succeed, then at long last the pews may begin to fill up again.

Damian Thompson is editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald.



P.S. 11/20/07
Here's a UPI story dated today that is based on the above blog! What astounds me is that United Press International, one of the most veteran news agencies in history, should base a story on a blog without even making an effort to go back to original sources - namely, the reports in the Italian media on the subject (reported on this forum via Sandro Magister and Father Z's roundup-cum-commentary of the little fray lit by La Stampa recently about the issue).

'Pope revives Gregorian chant' is not news today. It was months ago, if only UPI and the other Anglophone media had reported the Pope's apostolic echortation Sacramentum caritatis properly, when Benedict made the point, among other things, that the Church should follow what Vatican-II itself urged in the liturgical constitution Sacramentum conciliarum.



Pope revives Gregorian chant


VATICAN CITY, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI is returning the Vatican to Gregorian chant, the medieval music that served the Catholic church for centuries.

The pope has named a new director of pontifical liturgical celebrations. He has also dropped Pope John Paul II's practice of using singers from Catholic churches around the world for the St. Peter's choir, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Benedict's leanings on forms of worship are conservative. Earlier this year, he gave churches more freedom to use the Tridentine mass, the Latin rite replaced by vernacular translations after Vatican II.

In an address to the bishops and priests of St. Peter's, the pope called for "continuity with tradition" and talked about "the time of St. Gregory the Great," referring to the pope after whom Gregorian chant is named.

Monsignor Valentin Miserachs Grau, the director of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, believes the entire church should return to Gregorian chance.

"Due to general ignorance, especially in sectors of the clergy, there exists music which is devoid of sanctity, true art and universality," he said.

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