Confirmed: new prefect for Congregation for Saints

As rumored (back in mid/late June):

Archbishop Angelo Amato, the secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has been named by Pope Benedict XVI to become the new prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of saints.

Salesian priest, Archbishop Amato became secretary of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation in 2002-- succeeding another Salesian, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who is now the Secretary of State. (CWNews)

More from CNA (twice actually).

This means that Andrea Tornielli, writing for Il Giornale, got everything about this appointment right, even the date it would be announced. Someone accidentally CC'd him in on the memo, I guess.

Replacing Amato at CDF, this Spanish Jesuit priest:

Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer S.J., professor of dogmatic theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and secretary general of the International Theological Commission, as secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Manacor, Spain in 1944 and ordained a priest in 1973.

Seems like a good pedigree.