VATICAN CITY — On Sunday, Pope Francis consecrated two new bishops for the Catholic Church in St. Peter’s Basilica: Bishop Guido Marini of Tortona, Italy, and Bishop Andrés Gabriel Ferrada Moreira, ...

Since 2007, with few exceptions, Bishop-elect Marini could be seen at the side of Pope Benedict XVI and then Pope Francis during papal Masses and other liturgies, both at the Vatican and abroad.

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 ...

Msgr. Guido Marini, papal master of ceremonies, places a zucchetto on Pope Benedict XVI's head during a Mass at the Vatican last year. (CNS/Reuters) VATICAN CITY-- The pope's chief liturgist, Msgr.

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 ...

Monsignor Guido Marini, Benedict XVI’s Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, is one of those Vatican figures who normally operate in the shadows. He’s the guy who organizes the Masses and ...

Msgr. Guido Marini at the Vatican (CNS/Catholic Press/Alessia Giuliani) ROME-- For the better part of five years, plenty of experts on Catholic liturgy have been waiting for the “real” agenda of Pope ...

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, ...