- Vatican Diary / The congregation with the revolving door
It is the one for divine worship, with jurisdiction over the liturgy. All of its most recent secretaries have been replaced early. And they have almost never been in agreement with their prefect and with the pope. On the new arrival, the Englishman Roche, the betting is open
VATICAN CITY, July 3, 2012 – Last week came the announcement of the appointment of a new secretary of the congregation for divine worship. It is the English bishop Arthur Roche.
He replaces Joseph Augustine Di Noia, who told Catholic News Service, the online agency of the episcopal conference of his country, the United States, that he was "flabbergasted" that he had to leave the position after only three years.
In effect, in the six years of Benedict XVI's pontificate, Di Noia is the third churchman to have left the position of second in command of this Vatican dicastery before the end of the five-year canonical mandate. An anomalous record. All the more so in that the dicastery in question is the one that has specific competencies over the liturgy, a question that is extremely close to the heart of Benedict XVI.
Read more here: http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350280?eng=y
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