Anthony Esolen
In an earlier column, I asked why we could not sing hymns from the
Christian treasury, which is nearly two thousand years old, and which
features composers with names like Bach and Handel and poets from
Prudentius to Thomas Aquinas to Isaac Watts, the Wesleys, and John Henry
Newman, rather than silly, sloppy, banally sentimental, […]
Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
“This is why respect for truth is ultimately inseparable from what we
call worship. Truth and cult are inextricably united—one cannot exist
without the other, however often history may have separated them.” ∼
Joseph Ratzinger (1982) Liturgical thought today seems to downplay the
importance of doctrine while elevating the significance of practice. The
harmony of lex orandi […]
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