Jeffrey Tucker on Pope Francis

Pope Francis Will Enliven the Benedict Legacy by Jeffrey Tucker

In my lifetime, there had never been a greater public-relations problem for the Church. For the previous ten years, the world press had free reign to trash, slander, detract, and calumny the Catholic Church and therefore the faith and there was no end in sight.

In the United States, as a result of court orders and legislation, parish life has been transformed. We’ve become bureaucratized to the point that even volunteers need background checks and must take tests on diocesan websites. Priests themselves have developed the habit of standing two feet away from everyone for fear of finding themselves embroiled in accusations of abuse.

Some of my priest friends who took great pride in their vocation quietly stopped wearing clerics when shopping at the store or going on trips. Many young people just stopped attending Mass; they were just too embarrassed over the bad press. Many Catholics just felt a profound sense of demoralization, and it only became worse with every revelation, every court decision, every defrocking, arrest, disclosure. And it never seemed to stop, year after year.

Jeffrey Tucker on Five Ways to Ruin Mass

Crisis (notices at The Chant Cafe and NLM)

Jeffrey Tucker Reviews Copperhead

Here

More on Gregorian Chant as the People's Music

Music scholar says chant is for everyone, not just elite by Carl Bunderson

Apropos of this post - Is Chant Like Folk Music?
by Jeffrey Tucker

Makes me want to read a more scholarly treatment and history of Gregorian chant, so as to see if it had anything in common with other singing traditions in the classical/Mediterranean world.

Sacred Music and the Reform of the Roman Rite

Theories of Why Liturgical Music Died by Jeffrey Tucker (Chant Cafe)

How widespread was the use chant in normal parish life in other countries? The comments at both locations do provide some answers to that question.

The ordinary in Latin might be intelligible to the faithful, but what about the propers? Latin not intelligible to must people, and Bouyer stipulates that true liturgical spirituality was inaccessible to people once they no longer understood Latin. How many were invested in maintaining a cultural identity with Rome or Latin culture? (As opposed to this is simply having the attitude that this is the way things are? How many really wanted to learn Latin but were unable to do so?)

Conflict between two inclinations which are good in themselves, but which lead to polarization? The conservative instinct of holding on to one's patrimony or what was familiar. And the desire to seek greater spiritual enrichment and fulfillment through the liturgy?

Some might claim that it was enough for the laity to read from missals in order to understand what is going on in the liturgy - this was certainly the preliminary step advocated by members of the 20th century liturgical movement. Would they have stopped there? Would Fr. Beauduin and his contemporaries have been opposed to the introduction of a hieratic version of the vernacular?

Liturgical worship mediated by a missal is less than ideal, and not all have the intellectual gifts for it. And the music? For specialists only?

Can we get them away from music that dominates the emotions to some simpler, more "austere" form of singing (or chanting) in English? Can some sort of English plainsong be created from Gregorian chant? (Or should we go farther east?)

So That's Why Gregorian Chant Sounds Different - Gregorian Chant: The Minor Modes
Gregorian Chant: The Major Modes

Second Album from The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles

More on Pope Benedict XVI

Dominicana: The Empty Chair, by Br. Henry Stephan, O.P.
Media Madness About Catholicism
Pope Benedict XVI's Musical Legacy by Jeffrey Tucker
The Debate Over the Council Continues and Quo Vadis?: The New Liturgical Movement Post-Benedict XVI by Shawn Tribe
Benedict: Last of the Heroic Generation by R. R Reno
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Benedict
Papal Resignations by Kevin White
Benedict XVI's Last Days
The Meaning of the Pope's Gesture
Nemi: Benedict XVI’s fond memories of Vatican II
Benedict XVI’s resignation is a first for Canon Law
The Radical Return to Ratzinger by Sean Fitzpatrick



After a surprising abdication, an examination of Pope Benedict XVI's legacy
The Cycle hosts, Father Robert Barron, and NBC’s Claudio Lavanga talk about the pope’s abdication and the process of selecting his successor.

Fr. Robert Barron on the Next Pope

Key players in the conclave to choose the next Pope

Jeffrey Tucker, Lincoln Uncensored

Laissez-Faire Club

Items of Interest, 2 October 2012

Mystagogy: Japanese Fighter Baptized Orthodox Christian

Catholic Music: It’s Time to Stop Making Stuff Up by Jeffrey Tucker

Tea With Honey But Not in Jerusalem: The Archbishop of Canterbury Makes His Peace With Post-Christian England by Tracey Rowland

Veteran Soldiers Go Organic

Thaddeus Kozinski, Jacques Maritain, the HHS Mandate, and the Failure of American Pluralism

Eugene Genovese:
Redeeming the Time by Eugene D. Genovese
The New Republic: From the Archives: Eugene Genovese on Eric Hobsbawm
The Squandered Century
by Eugene Genovese
Paul Gottfried, Eric Hobsbawm and the Totalitarian Double Standard

AmCon:
More from Rod Dreher on the SSJ
Jack Hunter, Whatever Happened to Civil Liberties?
Kevin Gutzman, Misjudging Rehnquist
PJB, Obama’s Foreign Policy Unravels

Counterpunch:
Ralph Nader, Rigging the Presidential Debates
Paul Craig Roberts, Cynthia McKinney on Leadership

[Intellectual] Property:
An interview with Silke Helfrich: “We have to reformulate the role of the state as enabler of the commons”
Is Property Theft?

Automobiles and Driving:
Dmitry Orlov, In Praise of Anarchy, Part 1
Occupy the Motor Industry

Music:
Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and Newfound Fame
Waylon Jennings: The 'Last Recordings' Of A Dreamer

Square Dance History Project Launches New Website - here

Jeffrey Tucker, In Defense of Bourgeois Civilization

Crisis
I'm a bit surprised that John Zmirak praises this article, but maybe I shouldn't be.

Advances in technology that give comfort and improve health are welcome, but what is the cost? And what problems do the solutions solved that could have been solved by other means? Is the increase in lifespan due more to improved sanitation and other preventative measures, rather than the discovery of cures? Would sanitation have been a problem if we had lived according to better-conceived, sustainable patterns? Is "civilization" forced to find solutions to problems that it causes in order to maintain itself? It would seem so, but why should that deserve to be called "civilization," rather than a way of life that is more rational and restrained? So, I find his two charts very misleading. The second chart, about the increase in population - Mr. Tucker fails to consider the role cheap energy plays in all of this, as well as colonialism and imperialism and the union between "capitalism" and a strong central government, etc. etc.

Feast of Christ the King

source: Christ Pantocrator

wiki: Christ Pantocrator and Christ in Majesty

QUAS PRIMAS (On the Feast of Christ the King)
Pope Pius XI

Saint Josemaria, The Feast of Christ the King

Jeffrey Tucker, Simple Motet for Christ the King
Chanted Propers for Christ the King

Michael Moreland, The Social Kingship of Christ: Metaphysical, not Political*

Items of Interest, 5 September 2011

A Future for English Chant

Practical tips for living sustainably: an interview with Joel Salatin (part 5 of 5)

Off the Battlefield: The Civilian’s View of Late Roman Soldiers

For Labor Day:
Transition Voice: Wage Slaves Unite! General Strike!
Paul Craig Roberts, Happy Corporations Day!
Labor Day is an anomaly in the anti-labor US
Scott Richert: Celebrate Labor Day With Saint Joseph the Worker

Portland:
Jack Donovan, A Totem Pole for Our Time

Garbage in, garbage out by Tom Murphy (EB)

Fabius Maximus: One of the top questions for our time: how will Peak Oil affect the economy?

Depression in women doubles since the 1970s as they 'try to have it all'




Fan-made COD video

Interview with Fr. Pierre Paul by Jeffrey Tucker of the ChantCafe.com

Interview with Fr. Pierre Paul by Jeffrey Tucker of the ChantCafe.com from Church Music Association of Amer on Vimeo.

Chant Cafe post

Part 2 of Thomas Storck's series on Catholic Social Teaching

From the Beginnings Through Leo XIII

Plus, Ryan Grant responds to Jeffrey Tucker: The Chips Begin to Fall Where They May,

InsideCatholic.com

Jeremiah Bannister on InsideCatholic.com's decision to delete responses by various editors of Distributist Review to the recent piece by Jeffrey Tucker.

Jeffrey Tucker dons his other hat

Why Catholics Don't Understand Economics

A recommendation by Jeffrey Tucker

Jeffrey Tucker, Music from the Templars! The CD: The Dedication of the Temple, Music from the Templars' Jerusalem Breviary.