July 28, 2013, the ethnographic present during which I open this review-essay on digital and multimedia scholarship in sacred music has been claimed as an extraordinary everyday by Pope Francis for Catholic and non-Catholic believers throughout world. The first Pope from South America is concluding his first papal visit to South America, affirming his commitment to serving the faithful everywhere, the everyperson at all stations of life. Millions, according to all media accounts, have gathered in Rio de Janeiro to experience the Pope, not so much to hear a homily addressed to them, rather to know that he moves among them. These millions spill from Rio's favelas to her streets, and they crowd the beaches that otherwise signify her secular appeal to the world. Pope Francis offers them a most uncommon commonness.

July 28th is also the final day on which Catholics worldwide are able to receive an indulgence directly...

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