Benedict XVI’s Master of Ceremonies: The Curia are all “Assholes” and “Faggots”

Agostini hot mic cuts too close to home, Rome fires the scapegoats and baptizes the language of the Reformation, all while the bishops permitted to protest remain safely powerless
Msgr. Marco Agostini was not a nobody. He was not a disposable court jester who wandered into a sensitive room and got himself tossed for a bad joke. Rome trusted him for decades. The Catholic Herald notes his prior service in the Secretariat of State’s Section for Relations with States, the very corner of the machinery that prizes discipline, discretion, and institutional loyalty.
In June 2009, under Benedict XVI, Agostini was appointed Pontifical Master of Ceremonies. He then remained in place for more than sixteen years across three pontificates, a tenure the Herald describes as an unusual sign of confidence and competence.
That context matters because it exposes what this is. This is not the Church discovering a suddenly unfit cleric. This is an institution removing a man who has long been useful, then …