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Forgotten Truths
To Promote Worldly & Protestant Music Corrupts Catholics
With the blessings of Leo XIV, the Vatican promoted an enormous pop concert at St. Peter's Square on September 13, 2025, as analyzed here. The ambience of the event could be defined as a mix of nightclub and Protestant Revival. Very immoral artists were featured along with others of recognized talent, with a predominance of Protestant songs and choirs.
The pretext to promote such an event was to please and attract the youth and bring them to the Church. Actually, the opposite is true. Indeed, if we apply the principles of Boethius' Treatise on Music to what was played, we see that this event was a massive psychological effort to make the youth more worldly, ecumenical and, consequently, less Catholic.
Boethius was a Catholic philosopher of great virtue who lived during the last days of the Western Roman Empire (5th-6th centuries). He became a counselor to the Ostrogothic King Theodoric. Given his constant denunciation of the corruption of members of the government, he was imprisoned, tortured and executed in 524, becoming a martyr of the Catholic Church. The Diocese of Pavia venerates him as a Saint with the due approval of the Sacred Congregation of the Rites (1883).
Boethius
For nothing is more characteristic of human nature than to be soothed by pleasant modes or disturbed by their opposites. This is not peculiar to people in particular endeavors or of particular ages. Indeed, music extends to every endeavor; moreover, youths, as well as the aged are so naturally attuned to musical modes by a kind of voluntary affection that no age at all is excluded from the charm of sweet song.
What Plato rightfully said can likewise be understood: the soul of the universe was joined together in a musical concord. For when we hear what is properly and harmoniously united in sound in conjunction with that which is harmoniously coupled and joined together within us and are attracted to it, then we recognize that we ourselves are put together in its likeness.
For likeness attracts, whereas unlikeness disgusts and repels. From this cause, radical transformations in character also arise. A lascivious disposition takes pleasure in more lascivious modes or is often made soft and corrupted upon hearing them. On the other hand, a rougher spirit finds pleasure in more exciting modes or becomes aroused when it hears them. ...
A people finds pleasure in modes because of likeness to its own character, for it is not possible for gentle things to be joined with or find pleasure in rough things, nor rough things in gentle. Rather, as has been said, similitude brings about love and pleasure.
Thus Plato holds that the greatest care should be exercised lest something be altered in music of good character. He states that there is no greater ruin of morals in a society than the gradual perversion of chaste and temperate music, for the minds of those listening at first acquiesce. Then they gradually submit, preserving no trace of honesty or justice - whether lascivious modes bring something immodest into the dispositions of the people or rougher ones implant something warlike and savage.
Indeed no path to the mind is as open for instruction as the sense of hearing. Thus, when rhythms and modes reach an intellect through the ears, they doubtless affect and reshape that mind according to their particular character. ...
Plato holds music of the highest moral character, modestly composed, to be a great guardian of the society; thus it should be temperate, simple and masculine, rather than effeminate, violent or fickle.
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