Kitsch or Nostalgia

Zenit publishes a "letter to the editor" from a musicologist in reference to the Fr Weber interview.
http://www.zenit.org/article-23183?l=english
Gregorian chant is certainly “foreign to our time and culture,” as Omer Westendorf states in the June 1974 issue of the Liguorian -- “The English Mass is Here to Stay” -- but this is hardly a legitimate criticism.
What art of the past is not foreign to our time and culture?
But Mr. Westendorf goes still further in his bold assertion that “Gregorian chant is not a music congenial to our time and culture.”
Is it really plausible that only Gregorian chant should now find itself mysteriously impotent, unable suddenly to inspire and animate the present, while the rest of our musical heritage continues to remain quite suitable for modern taste?
Of course not. I would suggest, rather, that if anything is uncongenial to our modern culture, it is the kitsch which now passes for sacred music in our churches.
Ferdinand Gajewski
Professor of Musicology

I don't really know Liguorian, but that sounds like the sort of nonsense "Catholic" magazines were printing in the '70s.
Oddly, the late Mr. Westendorf was also responsible for the CD insulting titled, "Latin Mass: music for Nostalgic Catholics.

http://www.amazon.com/Latin-High-Mass-Nostalgic-Catholics/dp/0937690740