Breaking: New Prefect Appointed for CDWDS (liturgy)!

From today's Vatican bulletino:

The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, archbishop of Toledo, Spain, as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He succeeds Cardinal Francis Arinze, whose resignation from the same office the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

This appointment has been in the rumor mill for some time.

Catholic Blogosphere reactions:

• Fr. Z: "In Spain he has been called the "Little Ratzinger".
• Rocco: the youngest of the '06 Cardinals (at 63), Llovera's background is in catechetical theology
• NLM: "it sounds as though we can expect much that is very good from the Cardinal." [I'd hope so.]

This also means that 76-year-old Cardinal Arinze will finally be allowed to step down. He will be missed!

update: and good heavens, Daily Peep has the photos which should terrify liturgical progressives.