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Vatican City, Nov 14, 2012 \/ 02:45 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- With the Vatican's approval on Nov. 14 of its restructuring, the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will shift its focus more intensely on art and liturgical music.<\/p>\n

\tThe restructuring is in accord with a Sept. 2011 apostolic letter issued by Pope Benedict XVI, where he noted that the changes will help the congregation in \u201cgiving a fresh impetus to promoting the sacred liturgy in the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThis will be achieved mainly through a new office dedicated to sacred music and liturgical art \u2013 including architecture \u2013 which will become operational next year.<\/p>\n

\tIts charges will include issuing guidelines on liturgical music and the structure of new churches so that they reflect the mysterious encounter with the divine, as well as follow the dictates and instructions of the new English translation of the Roman Missal.<\/p>\n

\tIn his letter, the Pope wrote that these all must be in accord with the Second Vatican Council's \u201cConstitution on the Sacred Liturgy.\u201d Overlooking that 1963 document has allowed for the post-conciliar trend of building unedifying churches and filling them pop-influenced music.<\/p>\n

\tSpanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares, prefect of the congregation, is entrusted with overseeing that these future guidelines and existing ones on liturgical celebration are followed throughout the world.<\/p>\n

\tHe is a long-time ally of the Pope, back to the pontiff's days as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Cardinal Canizares is sometimes referred as \u201cLittle Ratzinger\u201d for his similar beliefs and opinions.<\/p>\n

\tOverseeing the many facets of worship in the worldwide Church is a significant task, especially in light of last December's implementation of the new Roman Missal in English, which is truer to the original Latin and more elevated in its language.<\/p>\n

\tTo help the congregation focus on issues related to worship, the new restructuring removes two responsibilities that proved time consuming: processes of dispensation from ratified and non-consummated marriage and cases concerning the nullity of sacred ordination.<\/p>\n

\tThose duties have been shifted to the Roman Rota, the Church\u2019s highest appellate tribunal.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Holy See has always sought to adapt its structures of governance to the pastoral needs that arise in the life of the Church in every period of history, thereby modifying the structure and competence of the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia,\u201d wrote the Pope in his Sept. 2011 letter.<\/p>\n

\tThat letter was issued motu proprio, meaning that he wrote it for reasons which he himself deemed sufficient.<\/p>\n

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