Rorate Caeli

New Turn of Events: Amato probable new Prefect of Divine Worship?


Months after the current Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Arinze, reached the retiring age of 75, a new name for his replacement is being mentioned as probable: Archbishop Angelo Amato, SDB, 70, Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under both Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Levada - and not the current Secretary of Divine Worship, Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, 60.

Andrea Tornielli reports on the latest rumors, and adds that Amato's probable substitute would be the well known President of the Pontifical Lateran University, Bishop Salvatore (Rino) Fisichella, 56.

Did Ranjith speak too much, too soon?