Posted on 11/08/2014 9:20:13 PM PST by ebb tide
The Eponymous Flower breaks an update on the demolition at the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Pope Francis continues to purge the liturgical sensibility of his predecessor, Benedict XVI.
On 5 November it was announced in the daily bulletin of the Holy See that Pope Francis had appointed a new Under-Secretary for the Congregation for Divine Worship. What was not there is that the two other undersecretaries were also dismissed. The Congregation has had no Cardinal Prefect since the beginning of October, after Pope Francis sent back the previous head of the dicastery, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares as archbishop of Valencia in Spain. Now the number two of the Congregation has been exchanged and thus within a month, the entire leadership.
Other officials who have been replaced in the past year learned of it through a bulletin, not through any discussion with the Pope or other Vatican officials.
The Pope’s new undersecretary is a faithful admirer of the infamous Abp. Annibale Bugnini who is largely responsible for today’s non-organic Mass (The one Pope Benedict called a banal on-the-spot product).
The bulletin from Wednesday announced the appointment of the new undersecretary, Monfortian Father Corrado Maggioni. As Pope Francis seems to be the liturgical antipode to Pope Benedict XVI., the same for Father Maggioni seems similarly in comparison to his recently deposed predecessors.
The Montfortian is a "confident Bugninist" as Riposte Catholic reports and a "great friend of Msgr. Piero Marini", the papal master of ceremonies of John Paul II. Annibale Bugnini (1912-1982) was largely responsible for the development and implementation of the liturgical reform of 1969/1970.
Ping
This is not going well.
Francis is quickly becoming the anti-Benedict. But this can only go so far. The air has been let out of the Bugnini reforms. People don’t like ugly.
Who is replacing these people with is my question.
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