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Last week Pope John XXIII put at least some of the fears to rest. In naming the cardinals who will guide the council deliberations, and outlining the council's rules of order in a 48-page Motu Proprio (a "White Paper" issued on the Pope's personal authority), he made it clear that hierarchical reformers would have plenty of opportunity to make their cases...
...early martyrs went singing into the arena to meet the lions; voices raised in praise and gladness have always been part of the Christian faith. But the sound is sometimes unholy. In modern times, Pope St. Pius X warned against the infiltration of profane music in his Motu Proprio (1903), followed by Pius XI in his Divini Cultus (1928). Last fall Chicago's Cardinal Stritch blacklisted such sentimental standbys as Schubert's Ave Maria and the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches (TIME...
Samuel Cardinal Stritch, archbishop of Chicago, last week banned from the Roman Catholic churches in his archdiocese some of the country's favorite church music as "unliturgical." The cardinal's authority: Pope Pius X (1903-14), who, in his encyclical Motu Proprio, cited "sanctity and goodness of form" as necessary to sacred music. Among the forbidden titles, many of which have also been banned in other dioceses: the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, originally written for the theater, and several Ave Marias, including Schubert's, originally a concert number; Verdi's, from the opera Otello; Mascagni...
Whether or not Sister Mary Elaine's mass eventually receives official approval for liturgical use, it is Father Lord's "hunch that Pope Piux X [whose Motu Proprio on Sacred Music is the definitive authority] would have approved most enthusiastically of this transference of a great series of musical themes to the greatest of musical purposes...
...Benedictine monks of Solesmes, France; 2) the "modern," which in liturgical circles includes all church music written since the beginning of the 18th Century - including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. Since 1904, when Pope Pius X pronounced on the subject of sacred music in his famed encyclical Motu Proprio, the use of "modern" music by the Catholic church has been sharply restricted.** But Palestrina's 16th-Century creations (best performed recently by the Sistine Chapel Choir of Rome, the Westminster Cathedral Choir of London and Father Finn's choristers) are regarded by Catholic authorities as liturgically flawless...