Ping!
Chaput goes in for modern music? If so, I’m very sorry to hear it. Frankly, that stuff drives me crazy.
I sang in the church choir here for a number of years, but we lost two excellent choir directors and ended up with what currently resembles a rock band. Couldn’t stand it, had to drop out of the choir, along with everyone else who used to sing in it.
Now, after communion and having returned to the pew to pray and meditate, I sometimes have to put my fingers in my ears, as unobtrusively as possible, to avoid being distracted at such an important time. The key offender actually plays his guitar very well, but he ought to be in a rock band playing in a bar while people down their whiskeys.
LOL.
Okay, let's see. First, the article is at the National "Catholic" (sic) REPORTER (meaning it is crap). And the last thing this fishwrap has is a "high church sensibility".
Second, who is more likely to be authentically Catholic ... Archbishop Charles Chaput or some drama queen music chief who publicizes his 'years of discontent' like this?
I am quite confident that the music for the liturgy at the outdoor Papal mass will be quite beautiful and infinitely better than what John Romeri, loved by the ncReporter, ever would have presented.
the guy seems like a crybaby, the archbishop is the boss, period.
Musically, the previous papal visit was a disaster. Hope this one is better.
That the “musical chief” is photographed in front of an organ speaks very well of him. May this be resolved.
I don’t think it much matters what type of music and liturgy is used while this fraud/imposter/demon-influenced ‘pope’ is in town