Between medieval and folk, two Mass audiences

The rise of the traditionalist Catholicism affirmed more every day, here an interesting article on music from the Washington Post. I concur with the sentiment expressed by the blogger in the article that most American parishes have a hardcore 70's group that controls the reins, but I see this as fading.

Between medieval and folk, two Mass audiences: "WASHINGTON Catholics don't argue about abortion or the death penalty nearly as much as they argue about what music is sung (or not sung, or used to be sung) at their local Sunday Mass.

It was ever thus — at least since the 1960s, when Sister first shortened her habit, strummed a G7 chord and, to hear some Catholics tell it, all heck broke loose.

Among his more fastidious devotees, Pope Benedict XVI is valued most for the fact that he is not Casey Kasem, and Mass is no place for a hit parade, and church is most relevant when it is serious."