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Sacred Spaces
St. Peter’s Church (Peterskirche) Vienna, Austria
True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
RECENT COLUMNS
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Auguste Meyrat
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Michael Pakaluk
-
Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
NEWS
COMMENTARY
NOTABLE
Music and the Christian soul
L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., The Imaginative Conservative
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
“In a world ringing with noise and suffused with the more or less artful idolizing of passions divorced from objective goods, where are we to find melodies capable of penetrating our hardened hearts with spiritual truths? Though Gregorian chant has pride of place within the Church’s life of prayer on account of its unique ability to raise the soul from earthly thoughts to heavenly contemplation, I would like to recommend another tradition that can be a powerful aid to integrating our human passions with divinely inspired reason.”