Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Catholic Insight

Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World

Day: August 29, 2022

Abbot Weakland, Pope Paul and the End of Chant?

I had no idea that recently-deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland was almost single-handedly responsible for the abolition of Gregorian chant in the Benedictine Order, which had been praising God with the ancient song from time immemorial. As John Byron Kuhner recounts, Abbot Weakland, then primate of the Order, confronted Paul VI, refusing to submit to his[…]

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