True. NCR is garbage. Chaput gets my 100% support. Musicians are usually talented, sensitive and ego maniacs; music directors are worse. I wait for any Bishop or pastor with the courage to fire the ego maniacs pretending to play music at mass. I once saw a pastor fire a family of musicians from the 11:00 am mass which they had participated for about twelve years. The pastor took grief, the musicians showed their immaturity and the victory was short lived. The dad regrouped his children, found another parish and resumed dishing out pain to the parishioners. I suggest that Mr. Romeri be thankful to have a job and humble to the leader of the Church.
There are facts missing in this story:
1) Romeri served Rigali at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
2) Rigali is moved to Philadelphia Archdiocese and named a Cardinal in 2003
3) Romeri follows Rigali to Philadelphia in 2010*
4) Just a year later, Cardinal Rigali resigns under the sex abuse cloud and Chaput takes his place
5) Artistic tension ensues between the Capuchin ArchBishop Chaput and Romeri.
In other words, it’s a case of very bad timing leading to very good people at cross purposes.
* “In a way, I’m following (Cardinal Justin) Rigali,” the former archbishop of St. Louis who now leads the Philadelphia archdiocese, Romeri said. “I’m really looking forward to working with him again.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch July 21, 2010.
He’s probably a homosexual and does not want Archbishop Chaput to get him fired before the Pope arrives.