Andrea Tornielli has new 'informed speculation' to add to his reporting of the 'musical chairs' at the Curia these days.
Mons. Ranjith really headed back to Colombo;
a familiar face from CDF will replace him as #2
at the Congregation for Divine worship
Translated from
June 5, 2009
Mons. Ranjith is truly going back to Colombo, and Mons. Di Noia is coming from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to take his place at the Congregation for Divine Worship.
Thus, one of the most controversial and much-postponed changes in the Roman Curia appears to have been decided.
Mons. Malcom Ranjith Patabendige Don - who was once secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, then made Apostolic Nuncio in Indonesia, and then recalled to the Curia by Benedict XVI to be #2 at the Congregation for Divine Worship - will now be the new Archbishop of Colombo in his native country of Sri Lanka, despite some attempts by some Curia cardinals to keep him in Rome.
To take his place at the CDW is the American Dominican theologian Fr. Augustine Di Noia, who has been undersecretary at the CDF since 2002, and therefore worked for more than two years with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. He will now be #2 to another ex-CDF alumnus, Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera who replaced Cardinal Francis Arinze at CDW after the latter's retirement last year.
6/6/09
P.S. Tornielli reports the above as a formal news item in today's issue of
Il Giornale.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 06/06/2009 13:11]