THE THIRD WAY
March for Life and the abolishment of capital punishment were all civil rights issues because they flowed from the same Gospel values that animated every other part of their lives.
Seeking a third way
In 1958, Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler Jr. wrote a book called Te Capitalist Manifesto. My father, concerned with the pervasive corrosive effects of growing economic inequality in society, was fascinated by this book and the economic theory espoused in it. Kelso and Adler proposed that neither unfettered capitalism nor unchecked socialism would alleviate the suffering caused by poverty and lack of opportunity. Te solution to the dilemma, they wrote, was in the marriage of the positive effects of capitalism coupled with a more broadly shared ownership by the workers and managers. Tey believed that this would create an effective strategy to lift many out of poverty into economic security. Te result of this third way was the development of employee stock ownership plans (or ESOP’s), a system that has found its way into many large and
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small businesses throughout the world, although its potential remains arguably underutilized.
Tere has been a similar dialectic of divergent ideologies regarding liturgical music since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and even before. Like two opposing economic systems, for more than 60 years there have been opposing camps of liturgical/sacred music whose only shared attitude at times seems to be the mutual suspicion with which they regard each other. Te proliferation of blogs and forums over the last twenty years fanned the verbal flames, and these tensions were only heightened with the advent of social media.
I was made intensely aware of this in 2008 when the music list for the Washington DC Papal Mass with Pope Benedict XVI was made public, and a sluice of vitriol was unleashed into the blogosphere. Te music to be performed at the prelude and during the Mass, it seems, was deemed by its detractors to be a slap in the face of the visiting pontiff, who in their minds had previously made his preference for what constituted authentic liturgical music abundantly clear.
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