The Archive · 1930

Music in Catholic

CHURCHES

San Francisco, Jan. 18, The Rt. Rev. Edward J. Hanns, Roman Cath Archbishop, made pul a mandate to-day on the occasion of his departure for Rome announcing revolutionary changes liturgical, church music. The mandate says that profane meloe such as "O Promise Me,"

You Truly," and "At Dawning" are banned from marriage services in Catholic el The organ is the only sal instrument to be used in church and should be playa!

ting to rules of really sacred The mandate is taken to mean that sacred music is to be restore in the Catholic churches.

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