Terrible News About the Horrible Arthur Roche – Voices
“I've loathed Roche since I caught him playing all manner of tricks to kill off Summorum Pontificum in Leeds diocese. (Also, he's never forgiven me for revealing that in his youth he was a champion figure skater – surprising in view of his girth.)“
Rocco Palmo, Twitter.com: “Given the eternal fury of the ‘Liturgy Wars’ in the English-speaking world, the naming of a Worship Czar from the combat zone – the first such pick in 50+ years – is of no little consequence.”
Luisella Scrosati, LaNuovaBq.it: “Roche, an admirer of Piero Marini and Andrea Grillo (supported by a new secretary who also comes from Sant'Anselmo), was in fact the thorn in Sarah's side and represented the internal opposition to the former Prefect. And punctually, he received the assignment that was Sarah's. The announced intervention against the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite is therefore configured as a direct attack on the line imprinted by Benedict XVI to the liturgy: Carthago delenda est.”
Ed. Condon, PillarCatholic.com: "Although not possessing an academic background in liturgy, he has played a central role in liturgical matters for more than a decade, especially in the area of translation, and, while known to be a close friend of Archbishop Marini, Roche has found himself on both sides of the Church’s liturgical culture wars."
"Critics of Roche describe him as someone who can be relied upon to 'go with the flow' and fall in line with the predominant school of thought on any particular issue, almost to the point of being a 'yes-man'."
