#idk man if changing the windowdressing is a dealbreaker for the whole religion then i think they're attached to the wrong things about Mass

[saint-ambrosef]

this post isn't saying "no true Catholic isn't into chant", that's not what happened here and not what i'm putting forward. laity are allowed to have personal preferences with liturgical expression of the Mass.

the article was specifically talking about a parish wherein the new pastor a few years ago made some minor changes to the liturgical aesthetic by incorporating Latin into some of the prayers/songs and started to openly discuss sin and the need for confession in his homilies. the former is an aesthetic and i can understand if it's not some people's cup of tea, but the latter is like bare minimum reminders of core Catholic teaching and it's a bit concerning that some parishioners would find it "jarring" to hear it during homilies.

it would be one thing if said people were just switching parishes as a result, but there were people in this article who fully left Catholicism over this. that's what i'm expressing disbelief about. i'm not inviting a no true scotsman fallacy about mere aesthetic preferences. if changing the music and reminders that we need confession is enough to make whole families completely dissociate with the religion as a whole, it's not unfair to question how much they actually believed in Catholicism to begin with.

just read an article where some ex-Catholics said they left the church because their parish's new priest started including some latin and chant to the Mass and brought up confession and sin more often in homilies.

my brothers/sisters in Christ, if that is all it takes to make you leave the religion (minor aesthetic differences and reminders that we need confession), i don't think you were ever Catholic to begin with beyond the technicality of your baptism.