{"id":4623,"date":"2006-11-14T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T11:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/talking-about-music.html"},"modified":"2006-11-14T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T11:23:19","slug":"talking-about-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/talking-about-music.html","title":{"rendered":"Talking About Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A USCCB moment:<\/p>\n<p>They just voted on the Music Directory issue (approved w\/88% yes) but before that considered an amendment from Bishop Vigneron of Oakland. He proposed a process similar to the conformity guidelines for catechetical textbooks. His point was &quot;what we sing at the liturgy <em>is <\/em>a liturgical text.&quot; He said the bishops should take a serious approach to these texts, and proposed a central conformity review process. If something like that didn&#8217;t happen, he said, he feared that the music directory idea, as proposed, would be inadequate to meet the call of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/ccdds\/documents\/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20010507_liturgiam-authenticam_en.html\">Liturgiam Authenticam<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bishop Trautman said no. The committee decided it would be better to give any guidelines to the bishops of Portland (OCP) and Chicago (GIA) and let them determine what content was appropriate or not. A centralized process would present an insurmountable amount of work. <\/p>\n<p>They took a voice vote, and Bishop Vigneron&#8217;s amendment was not approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A USCCB moment: They just voted on the Music Directory issue (approved w\/88% yes) but before that considered an amendment from Bishop Vigneron of Oakland. He proposed a process similar to the conformity guidelines for catechetical textbooks. 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