[Mad Dawg]

What diocese are you in? We're doing a samizdat hymnal in Charlottesville (D. of Richmond) and a friend's parish in Santa Paula (D. of LA) is doing the same.

People blame it on us boomers (and Vat II) but I don't think that's it. I think as the current crop of clerics ordained in the 60's and early 70's hits retirement things gonna happen. I hope. Hymns that sound like they come from a Disney movie or a cocktail lounge just have on staying power. They are kept alive, like the NAB, by authority.

[Jeff Chandler]

We’re in the Phoenix diocese. The problem as I see it is threefold:

1.) The music ministers are ignorant of the purpose of liturgical music.

2.) The music ministers have enormous egos.

3.) The clerics share the same problems as the music ministers.

I should add a fourth problem: The appalling lack of good taste among all concerned.

I actually count some music ministers among my friends, and they are decent people, but I won’t bring the subject up anymore because they’ll never change.