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06/02/2018
Nature needs music, then let both be prized.
A price is paid if either be despised.
Nature needs music, then let both be prized.
A price is paid if either be despised.
A world unbalanced, unharmonious, sad,
To line the soul needs Mozart, wise and glad.
As suburbs are to downtown, culture true
Both flows from true Faith, and upholds it too.
A friend writes that he sees the Newsociety failing to denounce cultural problems. This failure makes it more than vulnerable.
How can a modern artist like T.S.Eliot be praiseworthy? Because while facing modern man’s disorder, he never gives up on God’s order.
Central to true religion is a certain response to life and to God which pagans can have and which Catholics can lose.
A remark of Brahms concerning his Violin Concerto shows that even without the Catholic Faith a man can appreciate God’s objective order.
The ugliness of modern art argues for God’s existence. God is not a policeman, but a liberator of the good in man.
The revolutionary harmonies of Wagner’s “Tristan” played a major part in destabilizing modern music, and with it, modern man.
The gaunt last movement of Beethoven’s 29th piano sonata clearly foreshadowed the horrors of modern “music,” nearly 200 years ago.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.