The two Ratzinger brothers, pianists, together on a day off during their recent summer vacation together seem to be looking trying out a new piece of music that might have been played publicly for the first time in Vatican City today.Today the Holy Father, as rumored in many places, announced major changes in his administration.
- A Brazilian, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, has been appointed to lead the Congregation for Clergy.
Long-time head of the same Congregation's letter of request for retirement was accepted by the Holy Father. But Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos will remain president of the pontifical Ecclesia Dei commission. The commission was defined on the CWNews news release today as follows:
Formed in the wake of the Lefebvrite schism and excommunications, its primary duty is to heal the wounds inflicted by that schism, by working to bring separated traditionalist Catholics back into the Church. It is also charged with collaboration local bishops to satisfy the desires for the traditional Latin Mass in keeping with the 1962 rite. Finally, it oversees and regulates those clerical groups and associations associated with the Tridentine rite, such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, and other traditionalist groups.
- In another change, the Holy Father has appointed Archbishop Angelo Comastri, the vicar general of the Vatican city-state, to serve as the archpriest (we might call the position "pastor) of St. Peter's Basilica. The question for the two composers: was it a fugue, a waltz or a new Latin Mass?
