[Magdalen] Clergy-musician dispute redux.

[Jay Weigel]

Good heavens! And that's why "Catholics can't sing", I guess. ~smdh~ Music
has caused me to leave, or at least decide not to attend, more than one
church. I guess RCs don't have that choice, though. They're "assigned" to
the parish they live in, more or less. Although my aunt, who was a convert,
absolutely refused to attend the church behind their building in NYC, which
was supposedly their parish church, because she could not stand the priest,
and she and my uncle went farther downtown to another parish.

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> I usually associate clergy-musician disputes with
> Anglicans and Protestants, but there's been a sad
> dispute chapter played out locally at one of the large
> Roman Catholic churches.
>
> The organist of this parish and his wife, who were organist
> and choir directors respectively, are leaving their positions
> which they have held for 31+ years.  It's the old situation
> where a new pastor arrived, and he "disliked music," and
> in particular "hated" the pipe organ which the church had just
> rebuilt for $250,000.
>
> The pastor first stuck the organist with being the church
> janitor in addition to his musical duties, and a not so veiled
> attempt to get the organist out.  The constant bickering has
> taken it's toll.
>
> There "will be no music at all" this summer, followed by
> whomever he can come up with in rhe autumn.  This is not
> only un-Christian, but non-canonical.   Most
> Episcopal priests I know of are angels compared to this
> pastor.
>