Observe and listen. This type of thing -- so simple, beautiful, rooted in tradition but looking forward to the future -- was not common at St. Peters for decades. What's more, he has done what even Pius X tried and failed to accomplish in fixing music at the Vatican. There is no preconciliar recording or video at St. Peters that sounds this great.

Kathleen Pluth, hymn writer and translator, S.T.D. (cand.) student at the Angelicum in Rome | archive

Fr. Christopher Smith, S.T.D., pastor of Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Taylors, SC | archive

Mary Ann Carr Wilson, music director at St. Anne Church in San Diego, home of the summer Chant Camp.

Adam Wood, church musician and writer at Music for Sunday.

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