Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

To understand the threat to music education posed by the seemingly minor change of mind, one needs to go back in time to the enactment of the Education Reform Act in 1988.

Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.