Why the Novus Ordo Needs Gregorian Chant

by John T. Knowles

While the liturgy wars rage, the litigants do little about a glaring problem: People are leaving our communities of worship. Continue Reading »

16 Sep 2021

Planning for Beauty

by Joel Morehouse

Discussions of liturgical music in many Catholic parishes have become needlessly polemical. The one thing we all agree upon is the poor state of liturgical music in most Catholic parishes. Like silly children taking up their parents’ quarrels, however, it’s not uncommon to see thirty-year-old adults arguing polemically about the “Spirit” of Vatican II and “hidebound” Latin traditions. While this irony may escape some, 2015 marks forty-five years since the Vernacular “Novus Ordo” Mass was introduced. The liturgical revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries are dying out. Priests ordained before the Council are few, and folk groups are quite literally aging out. Continue Reading »

17 Aug 2015