Author: Richard Morris

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Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

- Richard Morris

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

- Richard Morris

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.

- Richard Morris

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

- Richard Morris

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.

- Richard Morris

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

- Richard Morris

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

- Richard Morris

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

- Richard Morris

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

- Richard Morris

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