atheism

A black and white illustration of people singing and playing guitar with text "Humanism and the Sacred: Why Sacred Music Stinks Today". The background is gray."

Humanism and the Sacred (by Msgr. Schuler, 1969)

Msgr Schuler nailed it in 1969. The problems of sacred music today do not lie in repertory or congregational participation. The disputes over Latin and the vernacular, the choir, the use of [guitar] are not the essential points …The problem is one of Faith – man replacing God.

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A Conjecture on The Pope and The Atheist

In 1965, then Jesuit Scholastic Jorge Maria Bergoglio, S.J. was teaching high school at Colegio de la Inmaculada in Argentina.  No doubt he was aware of and took interest in the planned 31st General Congregation of the Society of Jesus.  Immediately before that convocation, Pope Paul VI gave a very specific directive to the Society of…

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