The Recovering Choir Director

Paul Rex provides us with a passage from The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church, a book published in 1985, and the following commentary:

The ones who need to read this are those of the liturgical music establishment. Unfortunately, as is often the case, those most in need are not likely to be paying much attention. Being part of the establishment makes them so, well, established.

Then there are those who readily assent to this analysis, intuitively siding with the good Cardinal. Those of the musical reform movement must feel like the pip-squeak neighborhood kids, with cupped hands and faces plastered against the glass, peering through the windows, while the big kids get to decide how the game’s going to be played. That image comes pretty close to capturing my sentiments of the situation.

Of course, some pip-squeak neighborhood kids may end up finding another playground in which to play.