There’s a musical stramash going on within the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.
In popular parlance it has been described as a battle between the “post-Vatican II hippies and the right-wing traditionalists”.
More seriously, it’s about the difference between respecting, protecting and reinterpreting the centuries’ old tradition of people-friendly Gregorian Chant within the context of congregational participation in the liturgical mass, and the banal sentimental dirges that have infested Sunday worship in most Catholic churches since the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s told its churches to open up to the modern world.
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In popular parlance it has been described as a battle between the “post-Vatican II hippies and the right-wing traditionalists”.
More seriously, it’s about the difference between respecting, protecting and reinterpreting the centuries’ old tradition of people-friendly Gregorian Chant within the context of congregational participation in the liturgical mass, and the banal sentimental dirges that have infested Sunday worship in most Catholic churches since the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s told its churches to open up to the modern world.
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