Interview with Archbishop Arthur Roche, Secretary of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments

Join Fr Thomas Rosica of Salt+Light for this exclusive WITNESS interview with recently appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche. He is the former Chair of the International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL) and bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Leeds in England, having served previously as Coadjutor Bishop of Leeds, and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Westminster, England’s most important Catholic diocese.

An intelligent, articulate and extremely affable shepherd, Arthur Roche now holds a key position in the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments at the Vatican. This Vatican department promotes liturgical pastoral activity and aims to gives support to the diocesan bishops so that the Christian faithful may share more actively in the sacred liturgy. It also grants the recognitio to translations of liturgical books and their adaptations that have been lawfully prepared by conferences of bishops.