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The Weapon of the St. Gallen Mafia is SynodalityCardinal Martini Lives on.This is a story about the origins of the “synod on synodality.”It is a story about dreams—and déjà vu.All his life, Carlo Maria Martini (pictured above left) was a dreamer. In the Italian documentary Vedete, Sono Uno di Voi, we hear Martini’s conviction that only dreams make reality bearable.As a boy, Martini’s dream had been to throw himself into studying the Holy Bible. He grew up to be a respected Biblical scholar—until Pope John Paul II plucked the shy Jesuit from his books to become the new Archbishop of...

Guido Marini - new Bishop of Tortona As anticipated by Messa in Latino yesterday, Msgr. Guido Marini's appointment as Bishop of Tortona was included today, August 29, in the Vatican Bollettino. The same announcement was made at the Santuario della Madonna della Guardia by the Archbishop of Genoa, Marco Tasca OFMConv. Msgr. Marini was present and Tasca placed the purple zucchetto on the new Bishop-elect right after. It now feels like a distant era, but Marini's appointment as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Ceremonies in October 2007 had ushered in a time of renewed beauty in the papal liturgies of...

Watch Bob Marini's Trump sign being stolen from his sign cage here..... www.youtube.com/watch (note, the video pauses periodically, but continues to the end)

In a Scene Right Out of “Goodfellas” John P. Wheeler’s Murdered Body Dumped Out Of The Rear of Garbage Truck in Wilmington DE, Who Set Up The Mafia Style Hit? UPDATED 1/05/2011 John P. Wheeler III planted incendiary devices at the home of neighbor Frank Marini in New Castle Delaware days before Wheeler’s body was found in the back of a garbage truck at the Cherry Island Landfill in Wilmington. Police found evidence linking John Parsons Wheeler 3d to devices planted at the New Castle home of a neighbor (Frank Marini) with whom he had been feuding, said the source,...

Within a few weeks after the election of Pope Francis, rumors began to circulate in Rome that the new Pontiff would appoint Archbishop Piero Marini as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship (CDW). For liberal liturgists, these rumors were cause for celebration; for conservatives, for despondency. It never happened. After many months of silence—during which time the rumors continued to swirl—the Pope announced that Cardinal Robert Sarah would be the new head of the CDW. Catholics who favor a reverent liturgy should rejoice at that appointment; the cardinal from Guinea is an excellent choice. Archbishop Marini—who was once private...

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...

Wilmington, Delaware (CNN) -- Police have found homicide victim John Wheeler's cell phone, according to a taxi driver who was interviewed by investigators this week. Athel Scott told CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti that police told him they found the cab driver's number in the phone of Wheeler, the former Pentagon official who was found dead in a Delaware landfill. He said investigators wanted to know how his number got there. Scott... says he told the police he didn't have any idea. "I never got a call from the man. I don't know him... He's never been in my cab....

New development in mysterious death of John Wheeler David Henry reportingJanuary 15, 2011NEW CASTLE, Del. - January 14, 2011 (WPVI) -- New details continue to emerge about the mysterious death of a former White House advisor from Delaware.... ...Wheeler sent an e-mail to friends and neighbors just before Christmas.In it, he vents his growing anger over the new house, that it blocks his view of the river and Battery Park. In the e-mail Wheeler wrote, "The core of Battery Park is dying, because as can now be seen, the huge mansion will dominate the site....In the very large picture, over...

<p>It was probably lost on the bulk of those who traveled with Msgr Guido Marini during his four-day Stateside swing last month, but there were still a handful who couldn't help but notice how, at a number of points, the Master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations kept his scarf draped over his left forearm... "just like a maniple."</p>

History will record as one of the hallmarks of this pontificate the renewal of the sacred liturgy currently underway in accordance with a "hermeneutic of continuity", a spirit that is open to legitimate progress but also firmly grounded in the riches of liturgical tradition. This worries a number of liturgists who have propagated the "hermeneutic of rupture and discontinuity" over recent decades (the "Vatican II changed all that" brigade) and who do not want to go "backwards". Among them one may number the recently replaced papal Master of Ceremonies, Archbishop Piero Marini, who has published this slender monograph - oddly...

Having (finally!) been relieved of his duties as the Vatican's chief liturgist, Archbishop Piero Marini-- not to be confused with his successor at that post, Msgr. Guido Marini-- has written a little book defending his approach and denouncing his critics. If you enjoy liturgical dance, conch-shell fanfares, and rainbow chasuables-- in short, if you are high on the "spirit of Vatican II-- you probably miss Archbishop Marini, and would enjoy his new book, A Challenging Reform: Realizing the Vision of the Liturgical Renewal, 1963-1975. Father George Rutler is not a big fan, however, and his acerbic review of the Marini...

Don Guido The current Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Genoa, Monsignor Guido Marini - who also is the Prefect of the ancient Cathedral of San Lorenzo and Archdiocesan Master of Ceremonies (Cerimoniere), as well as spiritual director of the Archdiocesan seminary and professor of Canon Law in several institutions -, has been named by several Italian journalists as the man who will replace Archbishop Piero Marini (no relation) as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Ceremonies. First, Andrea Tornielli, on the September 2 edition of Il Giornale; now, Sandro Magister. The most interesting report, though, is that of a local Genoese...

12 September 2007 Magister hits homerun about the Pope’s vision and gives news about the M.C. Piero Marini CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 8:46 am When the Pope was in Austria, there was a Mass in the Cathedral of Vienna.  The music was the Mariazeller Mass of Haydn.  This has impressed the gentlemanly Sandro Magister.  At the very end there is a comment that H.E. the M.C, Most Rev. Piero Marini is soon to be moving along. My emphases and comments.     From Vienna, a Lesson on How to Sing the Mass Haydn’s polyphony and the Gregorian...

In all the hub-bub about the Pope's long-anticipated motu proprio, "Summorum Pontificum" it seems hardly anyone paid attention to the other things happening today at the Vatican. They held the Giuramento (i.e. Oath-Taking) for Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone who has now officially taken on the position of Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church. The ceremony is usually small and quiet. Today's was in the Chapel of Urban VIII. The Pope actually hands over to him a baton of office. This baton is a stick about two feet in length covered in red velvet with a braid at one end. The...

MILAN, Italy (CNS) -- Liturgies celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI are undergoing changes, said the papal master of liturgical ceremonies. Archbishop Piero Marini, who also served as master of ceremonies for Pope John Paul II, said that with Pope Benedict "I have to be a little more attentive because he is an expert in liturgy." "But it gives me satisfaction because he always recognizes the work that has been done, and we talk about it together," said the 64-year-old Italian, who has worked at the Vatican since 1965. In a March 20 interview with the Milan-based online news site, Affari...

The Italian newsweekly Panorama has a very interesting prognosis of the major events of 2006 in the Roman Curia in its last edition (with the same title as the one chosen for this post). The main points of the article: FIRST, after eight months, Pope Benedict has filled only two positions with his men: CDF Prefect, vacated for obvious reasons; and the Secretary for Divine Worship, who was picked because he was needed to "continue the dialogue with the traditionalist Catholics" (Panorama's words). SECOND, and this has been well known for a few months, the Holy Father has chosen...

There are no gems on this chasuble. Ditto for the mitre. Grazie Dio, it's a Marini Special. The Pope has taken on use of a very unique set of vestments which seem to be a special-order. Alongside the white (shown here at yesterday's Synod closing liturgy) he's also worn this style in red and another in lime green -- he used the latter to open the Synod. Each is a simple, ample-cut Gothic with an embroidered pattern, usually the Ratzingerian shell. As a departure from customary liturgical vesture, there is no orphrey (the central design down the front or...