Bugnini "spirit" still Alive!
Will Piero Marini Become Highest Liturgist and a Cardinal?
(Rome) After the posting away of Cardinal Prefect Antonio Cañizares and
the defenestration of the liturgical Ratzingerians Father Anthony Ward
and Msgr. Juan Miguel Ferrer-Grenesche as Under Secretary of the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacrament,
voices have been intensifying in Rome that Archbishop Piero Marini could
become the top liturgist of the Vatican and a future Cardinal.
The evidence is compelling, Msgr. Piero Marini, the former master of
ceremonies of John Paul II., not to be confused with Msgr. Guido Marini,
the master of ceremonies of Benedict XVI., and will again be master of
ceremonies of Pope Francis. He formerly held the office from 1987 to
2007. The latter since 2007. The two unrelated Marinis also differ
because Piero Marini has been an Archbishop since 1998 and since 2003
Bishop Titular Archbishop, while Guido Marini has only been "created" an
honorary papal prelate. More fundamental, however, is the different
liturgical understanding that distinguishes the two Marinis.
The question here is that Archbishop Piero Marini, a month after the
conclave praised Pope Francis in El Pais and disparaged Benedict XVI.:
"You breathe fresh air. He is a window which opens the spring and hope.
So far we have bad to breathe stuffy swampy water."
The rumors have a ring of truth
Three weeks after his "election", "Pope" Francis surprisingly received Piero
Marini in audience. Numerous senior level curia representatives had
still not been received by the new pope at that time. The preference of
the liturgical "designer" of John Paul II immediately led to
speculation that did not cease since then (see Guido Marini Again instead of New (Old) Master of Ceremonies - Piero Marini in Audience with Pope Francis ).
Initially it was thought that Francis was much more closely related liturgically to Piero Marini, would replace Guido Marini as Papal Master of Ceremonies. Such a return to the same office would be uncommon in the Church and would also allow obvious conclusions.
At June's End, whispers grew louder, Piero Marini might rise even higher
and be put in the place held by Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, as the new
Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and thus a candidate for
the Cardinal dignity (see Piero Marini next Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship? rumors about personnel changes at the Vatican?
). The purge in the Vatican of Ratzingerians will be made in stages.
Cardinal Cañizares was sent back by Pope Francis to be archbishop of
Valencia in Spain in late summer 2014. The inauguration took place on
October 4, one day before the start of the Synod of Bishops on the
Family in Rome, which Msgr. Cañizares would have addressed as Cardinal
Prefect. The same now applies also for the despatched Cardinal Burke.
You could read it on the Synod of Bishops as the depletion of a
particular camp.
"Brutal" Recoloring of a Congregation?
Il Timone wrote of the successor of Cardinal Cañizares on 22 September:
"The decision has been made on him. It lacks only the notice. " "Him,"
said Archbishop Piero Marini. This announcement has not yet occurred,
but the appointment of Father Corrado Maggioni on November 5, is
interpreted as the new Under Secretary of the Congregation for Divine
Worship in this direction. The dismissal of the two previous
sub-secretaries is considered particularly "brutal" ( Riposte
Catholique ), because they had to learn of with the public from the
Bulletin of the Holy See at the same time.
Since the chair of the Cardinal Prefect is vacant, the Congregation is
currently headed by a moderate "progressive" secretary, Archbishop
Arthur Roche, and thoroughgoing Bugninist, Under-Secretary Father
Maggioni.
Father Maggioni is a close friend of Msgr. Piero Marini, the president
since 2007 of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic
Congresses, and taught liturgical sciences at the Benedictine University
of Saint Anselm. Piero Marini was already during the Second Vatican
Council, the closest collaborator of Msgr. Annibale Bugnini, the
"architect" of the Catholic liturgical reform.
Will Piero Marini Receive That Which Annibale Bugnini was Denied?
The realization of Piero Marini's dream, to be chief liturgist of the
Vatican, seems a step ever closer and he thus would achieve what is his
teacher and mentor, Annibale Bugnini failed at. Msgr. Bugnini, although
he was from 1969-1975 to the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine
Worship, the office of the prefect and the dignity of Cardinal were
denied him. Instead, he finally fell out with Paul VI. in disgrace. His
pupil Piero Marini can now make this last step.
Roman observers believe, along with the occurrence of contrary rumors
in spring 2013, that Archbishop Piero Marini, born in 1942, was already
too old for such an appointment. After only three years in office, he
would be 75. But Pope Francis just established tougher retirement
provisions, which enabled the personnel shuffle against Cardinal Burke,
can also be read differently. The Pope has ultimately strengthened
especially his right. He will force Curia staff (except the Cardinal
Prefects) who are 75 years, to offer their resignations. However,
nothing prevents the Pope from rejecting the offer.
Pope Not Shy to Give Offense - Intention of AvengingBugnini Clique's
Other observers thought they might assume that the head of the Church
would not allow such a provocation, such as the appointment of Piero
Marini appointed as Cardinal Prefect. The exile of Cardinal Burke has
made it clear that the Argentine Pope decides and enforces his will
without regard to losses.
The "smarter" version, holds that a "moderate" prefect will be nominated
to find the balance, but seems to be eclipsed by an overweening desire
to avenge the Bugninists. They, above all Piero Marini, have never
gotten over the penetration of the "reformers of the reform" into the
"holy temple" of the liturgical reform. Their sensitivity to the
recovery of the sacred and its openness to the traditional rite was an
intolerable affront to the Bugninists. Don Nicola Bux had presented in
2012, together with Canon Raffaele Coppola the book "The Empty Dance
Around the Golden Calf" on the topic secularized liturgy and Ius
divinum. The introduction was contributed by the way by none other than
Cardinal Raymond Burke (see "The Empty Dance Around the Golden Calf" - Liturgy and Ius divinum - Book Publishing ). The appointment of Piero Marini would visibly complete the revenge.
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