One of the silliest things I've ever heard a smart person say:
[A well-known Catholic "folk" musician] says he’s learned not to bemoan the future of Catholic music. “The American church, as it always has done, will sort through this and figure out what has meat and what doesn’t. I’ve seen this happen since 1963: The best always surfaces to the top and stays there.”
Forget contemporary music, does he maybe think the fact that old people still ask for, I'm not making this up, On This Day O Beautiful Mother, Good Night Sweet Jesus, and To Jesus Heart All Burning, and the like, (and they and their ilk are the ONLY hymns requested from their era,) puts the lie to that optimistic assessment that "quality will out"?
Many sorts of thing rise to the top...
And it's good to know Catholic music publishers have such laudable aims: one is "stepping up efforts to get into the market."
And it seems that this is considered a regrettable reality: "Catholics struggle to dent the contemporary Christian chart"... why, exactly?
Universalis, your very own breviary in pixels...
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