Rites and Wrongs music when Catholics are increasingly rejecting

when Catholics are increasingly rejecting the banality of much of today's 'church music

Although in its pagan form it is Babylon and the Beast

"The Preparation of the Gentiles" and "The Gospel of John"

with original (non-modernized) lyrics and classic harmonizations

Pius X's 1903 motu proprio Tra le Sollectitudini still provides the surest guide for the restoration of Catholic sacred music

Rites and Wrongs music when Catholics are increasingly rejectingBy the 1970s, the traditional Latin Mass barely existed anywhere except in memory. Even a decade after Pope John Paul IIs landmark 1988 document Ecclesia Dei in which he asked bishops throughout the Church to respect the rightful aspirations of those requesting the Latin Mass, the majority of American Catholics either didnt know about it or could do nothing to move their inflexible pastors. David Sonnier, a 1981 West Point graduate, loved the Army and