Anglice Rescriptum de Musica Sacra a Raphaele Cardinali Merry Del Val Secretarii Status SS. Pii X zazzle.com/ProVaticanus #PiusX #Magisterium #MerryDalVal May Women Sing in Our Church Choirs? Since the publication of Father Bonvin's article on the question whether women may sing in our church choirs (Caecilia, Oct. 1908, and CATHOLIC FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW, xv, 20 sq.), the following correspondence has been given out by the Bishop of Pittsburg: Bishop Canevin to Cardinal Merry del Val: It would please me very much if you would have the kindness to advise me if it is true that women may sing in the choirs or churches, not only when they sing together with the other male members of the congregation in the body of the church, but also when they are separated, and form, either alone, or with men and boys, a special choir on an elevated platform or choir loft in the rear of the churches, as is the custom in the United States. Because of the diversity of opinion, and the many newspaper reports,…More