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Archive for September 23rd, 2010

A chant expert on the new chants

Bruce Ford writes: “The ICEL musicians ought to have read John Boe’s dissertation, ‘The Ordinary in English: Anglican Plainsong Kyrials and Their Sources’ (Northwestern University, 1969) before they did their work. They appear to have been unaware of all but the most obvious ‘set-forms.’”

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Bishops with opinions

How many ministers in the Catholic Church, bishops or priests or deacons or lay ministers, feel they must say things they don’t believe, or not say things they do believe, out of obedience?

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