The intent is to get customers in the door by any means that might be utilized, dishonest or not. It puts us in the place of God. Instead of being freed as the body of Christ to respond to the God of freedom and grace, this use of music stifles our freedom and binds us to the culture of commercial manipulation. Genuine, honest attempts to figure out how to sing the church's song in the language of the people are quite different from any of these three skewed ones. The genuine attempts need to be continually pursued.
Catholicity is pluriform, and a variety of musical responses are both inevitable and necessary.
We need to embrace them vigorously, with as much skill and loving care as possible. The multicultural materials we have been working on in recent years from around the world hold much promise. We need to hold in tension with the previous insight another one that Vatican II also gave us. That is an equally profound notion. In our time we are apt to overlook it.