Archbishop Piero Marini served as the leading liturgist of the Holy See for 25 years. As master of papal liturgical ceremonies and as secretary/confidant to Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, the chief ...

ROME — On a rainy Christmas Eve, Pope Benedict XVI followed a procession of Swiss Guards, bishops and priests down the central nave of St. Peter’s Basilica to celebrate midnight Mass before ...

The awkwardness of having two popes -- one active, one emeritus -- is dramatized by a controversy over the rumored appointment of a new head of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Sacraments, ...

Italian Archbishop Piero Marini, former liturgical Master of Ceremonies under St. Pope John Paul II, named Oct. 28 by Pope Francis as a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline ...

In a noteworthy change of personnel, if not of surname, the Vatican announced today that Monsignor Guido Marini will replace Archbishop Piero Marini as the pope’s Master of Ceremonies, meaning the ...

ROME — The new secretary and undersecretary of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship both have studied at the Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo, an institute in Rome whose school of liturgy has ...

Archbishop Piero Marini, a Vatican official, recalls watching bishops day after day pour out of the Vatican hall where they gathered 50 years ago to formulate the constitutions, decrees and ...