New Leadership Team at Congregation for Divine Worship Shares Pope’s Perspectives on Liturgy

National Catholic Register ^ | May 28, 2021 | Edward Pentin

[ebb tide]

New Leadership Team at Congregation for Divine Worship Shares Pope’s Perspectives on Liturgy

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has overhauled the leadership of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, appointing a new prefect and secretary who share his determination to press ahead with post-conciliar liturgical reforms.

...

A key reason for this and for Archbishop Roche’s appointment as the Congregation for Divine Worship’s prefect, according to many observers, is that both he and Pope Francis share the same liturgical vision, one that Francis sees as an “irreversible” process of reform, consistent with the liturgical reforms that took place after the Second Vatican Council, and which “demands time, faithful reception, practical obedience, wise implementation in celebrations.” 

The liturgical reform, Francis said in 2017, must overcome “a partial reception, and practices that disfigure it.” 

Bishop Viola, the congregation’s new secretary, shares a similar outlook on the liturgy, as evidenced by some of those closest to him. 

Moreover, Bishop Viola is known to be a protégé of Bishop Luca Brandolini, who in turn was a disciple and co-worker of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, the principal creator of the post-conciliar ordinary form of the Mass, or Novus Ordo. Bishop Brandolini, who said he cried when Benedict XVI made the Traditional Latin Mass more accessible to the faithful in 2007, ordained Vittorio Viola a priest in 1993, and Bishop Sorrentino consecrated him a bishop in 2014.

[ebb tide]

Moreover, Bishop Viola is known to be a protégé of Bishop Luca Brandolini, who in turn was a disciple and co-worker of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, the principal creator of the post-conciliar ordinary form of the Mass, or Novus Ordo. Bishop Brandolini, who said he cried when Benedict XVI made the Traditional Latin Mass more accessible to the faithful in 2007, ordained Vittorio Viola a priest in 1993, and Bishop Sorrentino consecrated him a bishop in 2014. 

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Governor Dinwiddie]

“Congregation for [less than] Divine Worship Hootenannies”

[ebb tide]

Both he (Roche) and Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, who similarly maintained that priests still required bishops’ permission to celebrate the (Traditional Latin) Mass, drew a stern response from Archbishop Roche’s predecessor as secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, now-Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, who called such misinterpretations of the document proud and rebellious.