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Fr. Carl Pfeiffer, S.J. – Heretics And Buffoons Meet In Washington

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Fr. Carl Pfeiffer, S.J. – Heretics And Buffoons Meet In Washington

By WILLIAM H. MARSHNER

THE WANDERER
March 29, 1973

(PART III)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The annual Religious Education Institute of the Archdiocese of Washington, held this year on February 24th, was a spiritual- intellectual disaster of the sorriest sort. In previous parts of this report, we have looked at the vulgar and hideous “liturgies” that were “celebrated” there and at the remarks of the featured speaker, Fr. Raymond Brown, S.S., a considerably over-rated New Testament scholar. In this final installment, we look in on one of the afternoon workshops, specifically, the one called “Celebrating Change Within Continuity.”

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On Igor Stravinsky

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On Igor Stravinsky

W. H. MARSHNER

Triumph
Vol. VI. No. 6
June 1971

Stravinsky was talking once about the forms of sacred music — the Masses, Passions, motets, the cantatas — and the particular glory of them. His interlocutor asked whether one must be a believer to compose these forms. Stravinsky’s answer was a thing of trumpets. “Certainly,” he said, “and not merely a believer in ‘symbolic figures,’ but in the Person of the Lord, the Person of the Devil, and the Miracles of the Church.” Continue reading “On Igor Stravinsky”