FEAR NOT with Kerry McCarthy

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ChantWorks presents Fear Not. Host Linda Hoffman speaks with Kerry McCarthy, Singer, scholar, author.   Transcript: Fear Not interview. Linda Hoffman with Kerry McCarthy, singer,-scholar, published author of director of music, at Wyoming Catholic College recorded...

What many Priests no longer believe

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Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. Loosely translated: “The norm of prayer governs the norm of belief; the norm of belief governs the norm of living.” Many priests nowadays (including myself) are asking, “What if there’s deficient lex in the orandi? Won’t that...

WARNING: The music at Mass may be harmful to your soul

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Only the most myopic would deny that a kind of mushroom cloud has covered the Catholic Church for the past half-century. A small, but quite significant, part of that spiritual nuclear winter has been the profound collapse of Sacred Music.  Votaries of the “spirit of...

Parish Liturgy Committee meetings (almost) everywhere

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CAST Pete, head of liturgy committeeRetired school principal Jeff, diocesan liturgy specialistAge 35 Father Bob, associate pastorAge 35 Deacon JohnAge 55 Deb, director of religious education (DRE)Age 45 Mark, music directorAge 65, part-time, agnostic protestant, also...

Dear Moses

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Dear Moses, This is Sarah, down here in the desert. I want to tell you what is going on down here since you went up on the mountain. Some people are upset because we do not see you face to face and you seem to be worshipping God without us. It’s as though you...