Nostalgia for traditional Catholicism

 One day in 1968 on the cover of Time Magazine: "IS GOD DEAD? " Nothing can bring back the pre-Vatican II Church. From a purely psychological point of view I think it was an error to end the beautiful Latin liturgy. The language of the Roman Empire was the tie that binded Catholics together for centuries. I still study Latin, now and then browsing  St. Augustine's "City of God." That God intoxicated saint! Only an Age of Faith could have produced an Augustine or a Thomas Aquinas.

Today the only way for me to get the FEELING of old time Catholicism is listening to unchanged Gregorian Chant or the solemn high masses of Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach. I don't ask anymore how TRUE is a mere FEELING, or unconscious longing for the Eternal and the Absolute. A hint of cosmic GOODNESS.

I do believe very much in modern science. But is that all there is? Is that ALL there is? I'll get the song on You Tube. Sung just right by Peggy Lee.