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Vatican liturgist explains Pope's stance
05-03-2010
For the better part of five years, plenty of experts on Catholic liturgy have been waiting for the "real" agenda of Pope Benedict XVI, known as a traditionalist on matters of worship, to emerge from beneath a façade of patience seemingly built on dropping hints rather than imposing sweeping new rules.
Now, however, the pope's own liturgist insists that the patient façade is actually the agenda.
One month ago, that papal liturgist, Msgr. Guido Marini, sparked wide debate with his public call for a "reform of the reform," suggesting to some a desire to roll back the clock on liturgical reforms associated with the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). However, Marini insists that no such rollback is underway, and no dramatic new rules are in the works.
When Benedict employs more traditional touches in his own liturgies, such as giving Communion on the tongue, those amount to "proposals," Marini said, intended to gradually influence the church's liturgical culture, and are not harbingers of forthcoming papal edicts.
"I don't believe that the liturgy of the church needs any radical changes or distortions," Marini said, saying he "fully" agrees with a comment from then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, that Catholic liturgy needs a "period of stability" after the wave of dramatic, and at times contentious, reforms that flowed from Vatican II.
Marini, the master of papal liturgical celebrations, spoke in an exclusive interview with NCR last month in his Vatican office.
When Marini addressed a January conference in Rome, he seemed to call into question at least some of the reforms from Vatican II, such as active participation by laity in the liturgy and greater "inculturation," meaning adjusting the church's rites to reflect local cultures.
In his conversation with NCR, however, Marini said that undoing those reforms is not what he had in mind. Marini conceded that the liturgical winds are blowing in a traditional direction, but said any change should happen slowly and without new upheaval.
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