Response to Benedict's statements in 2007
  • noel jones, aagonoel jones, aago
    Posts: 6,605
    The logic here of the entire statement seems to escape me.

    Comments on a linked page of an NPR broadcast from 2007:

    As a now-lapsed Catholic who grew up in the heydey of the 70s and 80s non-traditionalist, folk-inspired mass, I'm horrified by the pope's assertion that it is a less appropriate form of devotion. My faith is profoundly tied to such music, so much so that in hearing your opening sequence of the familar Catholic ditty "Gather Us In," I immediately felt an uplifting sense of joy, warmth, and community--a wonderful reminder of why I feel so fortunate to be raised Catholic in the first place.
  • Andrew Motyka
    Posts: 944
    Well, I'm glad that such profound music assisted him on his lifelong journey of...leaving the faith?
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Noel,

    Read more carefully. It makes perfect sense, although it needs to be rearranged slightly.

    "My faith is profoundly tied to such music,...I'm horrified by the pope's assertion that it is a less appropriate form of devotion"

    As a now-lapsed Catholic I feel so fortunate hearing your opening sequence of the familar Catholic ditty "Gather Us In,"

    why be raised Catholic of the 70s and 80s non-traditionalist, folk-inspired mass in the first place?
  • incantuincantu
    Posts: 989
    I should like to ditto "ditty."
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