Bishop Egan has only been in his post for a few weeks, but already he’s been telling orthodox young Catholics what they want to hear: that they should adore the Blessed Sacrament, advertise their faith by making the sign of the cross, and even keep a rosary handy in the car. Cue barely suppressed shrieks from the old guard in Portsmouth, whose “director of liturgy”, the composer Paul Inwood, writes cod plainchant decked out in the harmonies of a 1970s cocktail lounge.
This made me think of Owen Alstott, whose ghastly psalm settings soil the OCP missals in my church. Still my choice for the worst composer who ever lived.
I do not follow the inside doings of Catholic church in England, but surely after a third of a century of John Paul II and Benedict XVI "liberal bishops" are more a rhetorical device than an institutional reality.
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