Ciao tutti and meet the REX of Liturgy, Enrico Cardinal Dante (a.k.a. the last of the Romans!). You might not know his name, but you'd know his face if you saw some of the old photos from der "good old days" in the theatre of encounter - Vatican liturgies of old!
This warrior was the prima donna of liturgy as THE "Master of Ceremonies" for the Papal Household for decades under Popes Pius XII ("Roman"), John XXIII ("Bubbles") and Paul VI ("'That' Man"). Pius and Dante, both sons of Rome, surely both had the impulse to bark at each other in Roman dialect!
Cardinal Dante saw that it was television which was practically ending the era of piety in Italy while the era of hedonism was returning. He lamented the disorientation of those Catholics that sought to "squash" every Catholic element out of the/our Roman Rite. Invincible, unmatched and smiling he rests even in death. Pray for us, you holy and successful liturgist of old!
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