The Royal Banners Forward Go. Stand by, there's some organ noodling before they get down to business.
Richard Proulx, the late music director of the Catholic cathedral in Chicago, edited the Episcopal hymnal. They are undoubtedly a bunch of heretics (having gone over the line from being merely schismatic) but they have excellent musical taste.
Wish I could say the same for most American Catholics. The level of music competence/appreciation/ability in most parishes is appallingly low.
I think I can offer one reason for our not learning much music. Religious instruction for the public school kids was changed from Sundays to weekdays two days a week. Something had to be eliminated for us, so we could get out early those two days and still get our own religious instruction in. Thus that cute little gadget with the 5 pieces of chalk, used to make a staff on the chalkboard was retired. We sang the National Anthem, and a hymn in the morning, and that used to be it most of the time. I wished they would have knocked out gym instead- I wasn’t any good....