The Long and Boring Goodbye
Archbishop Marini on the liturgy wars :
"Alas, even as a tale of Vatican intrigue, 'A Challenging Reform' is dull, duller, dullest. The excruciating detail of who-went-to-what-meeting is one problem. Another, and worse, is that Marini's characters are cartoons: good reformers, wicked reactionaries, all seemingly devoid of ideas and arguments. Not only does Marini fail to give an account of the so-called reactionaries' ideas; he doesn't explore the ideas and personalities of the reformers, the party in which he was then a junior subaltern."
"Alas, even as a tale of Vatican intrigue, 'A Challenging Reform' is dull, duller, dullest. The excruciating detail of who-went-to-what-meeting is one problem. Another, and worse, is that Marini's characters are cartoons: good reformers, wicked reactionaries, all seemingly devoid of ideas and arguments. Not only does Marini fail to give an account of the so-called reactionaries' ideas; he doesn't explore the ideas and personalities of the reformers, the party in which he was then a junior subaltern."
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