not being an RC myself, I didn't really give a sparrow's fart... :-)

At the time I saw a lot of despair around me, both from those in the church who thought the encyclical substantively dehumanised them and from those churchgoers who were in the anti-conscription movement (and against Australia's military involvement in Vietnam) who thought the church should have supported them rather than the govt.

But, neither has much to do with L'Osservatore Romano's current views on music. The editorials at the time might have been quite fulminatory.

Cheers, Rowan