Now that Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera is returning to Spain, thoughts are turning to who might succeed him as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Nicknamed “little Ratzinger” due to his close ties to Pope Benedict XVI, the cardinal often celebrated Mass in the old rite. But it appears that Pope Francis wants a man grounded in the post-Vatican II liturgy: in an interview, the cardinal said the Pope told his department to be less “concerned with reforms&
04 September 2014, The Tablet
Worship shift
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