Here's my latest column in the Catholic Register, inspired by a setting of "Christe Redemptor Omnium."
I could have gone on forever about how neither "fun" nor sentimental indulgence in "feelings" is a decent substitute for beauty, but I had an 800 word maximum.
By the way, whoever likes to sentimentalize the "house churches" of the first and second century has not been to Mass in a big old Scottish house chapel on a cold and damp day!