Interesting, thanks. I guess I didn't realize there was that much variance and mostly associated modern instrumentation with american protestants. The only cath

Interesting, thanks. I guess I didn't realize there was that much variance and mostly associated modern instrumentation with american protestants. The only catholic churches I've been to have been eastern rite which is outwardly mostly the same as what I'm familiar with. I still don't really intuit the distinction between instruments and styles you're making but I believe you that it's there. I can't see how any instrument is inherently profane, but that is simplified by the tradition that all of them are inappropriate for liturgy. Once you've permitted any you need a criteria to exclude the rest. It seems like the catholic church is very much in the process of working out the contours of that.