Hymnody

Catholics don't sing in Church.  Protestants do.  The Reformation restored congregational singing by writing hymns in the vernacular, that expressed our faith, in tunes that everyone could sing.  Catholics had medieval polyphony, so complex, that only trained choirs could sing.  This is why the Protestant is much more comfortable sharing their faith, because they sing it.  Their hymns are from scriptural themes.  Catholics expect professional missionaries, nuns and priests to do the evangelizing, and choirs or cantors to sing.

Along came Vatican II.  Catholics were supposed to now evangelize.  We wrote hymns in English.  They were dreadful and banal.  It felt like a folk concert, a bad folk concert. Catholics, the ones that stayed, sang for a while.  We wrote better hymns, but the horse had left the barn.  Catholics don't sing.  And they still don't evangelize.  If you don't sing it, you won't share it.  Only a joyful person shares the faith.  Catholics prefer Holy Communion.  It is quiet, and individualistic, just you and God.  It might make Catholics feel better, but it is not the Gospel.