Top 26 Quotes by Richard Morris

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

But nowadays hymns are the norm, because people don't have much else to sing.

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.

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.