He'll be 75 in January.

The 75 would be relevant if he had a non-titular see, but not so much in this context....

Here's the complete list (apparently replacing all the incumbent consultors, including Cdls Burke and Pell):

Cdl Woelki, Cologne, Germany;
Cdl Onaiyekan, Abuja, Nigeria;
Cdl Parolin, Secretary of State;
Cdl Lacroix, Québec, Canada;
Cdl Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso;
Cdl Dew, Wellington, New Zealand;
Cdl Blázquez Pérez, Valladolid, Spain;
Cdl Furtado, Santiago de Cabo Verde, Capo Verde;
Cdl Ravasi, Pontifical Council for Culture; and
Cdl Stella, Congregation for Clergy.
Abp Jala, Shillong, India;
Abp Sorrentino, Assisi‑Nocera Umbra‑Gualdo Tadino, Italy;
Abp Hart, Melbourne, Australia;
Abp Piero Marini, President of pontifical committee for Eucharistic congresses;
Abp Aubertin, Tours, France;
Abp Valles, Davao, Philippines; and
Abp Voltolini Esti, Portoviejo, Ecuador.
Bp Serratelli, Paterson, NJ, USA;
Bp Maniago, Castellaneta, Italy;
Bp Eidsvig, Oslo, Norway;
Bp D’Annibale, Rio Gallegos, Argentina;
Bp Cordeiro, Bragança‑Miranda, Portugal;
Bp Morerod, Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, Switzerland;
Bp Masi, auxiliary of Kinshasa, Congo;
Bp Travas, Multan, Pakistan; and
Bp Shin‑Ho, auxiliary of Daegu, Korea.

What's Marini like? Anyone else promising or disappointing?

Bp. Serratelli is sensible; Bp. Morerod has good relations with the SSPX in his diocese; if I remember right, Cdl. Ravasi is noted for goofy cultural projects.

Cardinal Sarah is still the prefect. Praise God.

CDW has delegated authority (legislative and administrative) from the Pope in liturgical matters. Anything new wouldn't be done without the prefect obtaining the Pope's approval; however, some matters (e.g., approval of vernacular translations) don't need to pass across the Pope's desk.

In Rome, prefects are not popes of their congregations.... it's a matter of the culture.

Since Cardinal Sarah is the head of the Congregation, why does it matter who his consultors are?

Because they're loading the office with liberals, making it much harder for +Sarah to lead in a faithful manner.

One thing we can guess, its workings will be byzantine--that is to say, Roman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkM7VMgDyyQ

Dear Guardian Angel, when I am asleep you have my permission
to moonlight part time at CDWDS and help Cdl Sarah. Amen.

Seems to me that all those thorns in Cdl Sarah's side must mean he's doing a good thing?

Some are using the term "consultor" incorrectly. The CDWDS has both members (bishops) and consultors (usually not bishops). The recent announcement was about members of the dicastery.

Plenary meetings of the CDWDS with both members and consultors present are almost non-existent. Plenary meetings of just the members are also rare. Most of the decision-making of the CDWDS occurs in ordinary meetings of those members who happen to live in Rome or near it. The agenda for those meetings include many more questions about sacramental validity (most often, the validity of specific marriages and ordinations) than liturgical issues.

I imagine that the recent instruction dealing with cremation was considered at a plenary meeting of the CDWDS members, but perhaps it was not, and the document is entirely the work product of the CDWDS staff. I very much doubt that Bishop Serratelli's frequent flyer mileage will see a spike because of his membership in the CDWDS.

Kathy,

Similar, but with several differences. During my 12 years at the then-BCL Secretariat, there were always 7 voting members of the committee. There were also usually 6 non-bishop consultants, and perhaps a few bishop consultants who served as chairmen of the committee's subcommittees. Technically the consultants did not vote on agenda items at committee meeting at which they were present. But they shared in the discussions and could often sway the voting members in the decisions they made.

The annual June meeting of the committee also included consultants. But during the November annual meeting of the then-NCCB, there would also be a meeting of the members and the bishop-consultants - usually to address actions items of the committee being considered by the full NCCB. And if there were liturgical action items subject to amendment being voted on by the NCCB, there might also be late-night session(s) of the committee to work through any such amendments

Don’t sit around in your wilted flower bed and wring your hands, waiting for priests to do everything for you. Not. Gonna. Happen.

No, but some of them will certainly get in your way and make your life hell.

It's not so much that the current impasse is the fault of the laity (Fr. Z. spends plenty of time blaming clerics), it's just the we layfolk can do little about the clergy except wring our hands. It's lame to foist this all on the clergy when we haven't done all that we can. And the first priority is getting our own house in order ("Go to Confession!") if we want anything to have a chance at succeeding.

otherwise excellent lay initiatives do not succeed without active clerical leadership.

I've actually found the reverse to be the case. My parents started a school with no clerical input whatsoever, and three decades later it's still going strong. Ditto for many other schools I know about. By contrast a number of schools I've heard about with clerical involvement suffered either from a priest doing bad things, or from a priest meddling in the internal affairs of the school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOOcrunnLYE

Sir Edward Fox's stirring speech as Lt. Gen. Horrocks. Of course, the irony is that regardless of the extensive planning, intense collaboration and extraordinary efforts, the operation failed.

he's placing most of the blame for the current impasse regarding SP and UE upon the laity.

Well,.........