Voskoization of the Immaculate Conception in Albany

Attended the third “education program” regarding the reordering of our cathedral. In the formal presentation, nothing was said about the reordering—“There is no plan”—but in the discussion afterwards it became clear that decisions have been made (not by the interior committee as a whole but by the diocesan majority, few of whom were present at the parish meetings, at which almost to a person every parishioner brave enough to stand up to speak somehow managed to get in the phrase, “I’m a traditionalist.”), and that nothing will save the cathedral from Voskoization but lack of funds. One can imagine a circle in hell where bishops and liturgists and liturgical design consultants will forever “celebrate the liturgy” in the spaces they built and designed on earth. In the homilies their lies will be preached back to them, and the songs that will be blared to them will all be from the second half of the 20^th century.

These meetings are parables, but our Bishop Howard Hubbard, who has attended them, seeing sees not; and hearing hears not, neither does he understand.

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This article is quoted by Gerald Augustinius in his The cafeteria is closed article Another Church Ruined? and noted in Mark Shea’s Catholic and Enjoying It.