Fr Julian’ Carrón s resignation opens the way for a new election. The strong candidate would be Fr Stefano Alberto.
Newsroom (16/11/2021 19:15, Gaudium Press) The resignation of Father Julián Carrón, Spanish priest and president of the Communion and Liberation Movement, is being presented as a fact aimed at facilitating, within his community, the renewal required by the recent Decree of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Family and Life regarding movements bearing the title “Association of the Faithful”.
This decree came into force last September 11, and article 1 states that “mandates in the central governing body at the international level may have a maximum duration of five years each”; article 2 states that “the same person may occupy a position in the central governing body at the international level for a maximum period of ten years”.
However, for several days, some analysts have been talking about the not very good relations between Communion and Liberation and the Vatican.
Fr. Julián Carrón did not participate in the meeting between the Pope and the ecclesial movements last September 16, despite the personal invitation made by Cardinal Kevin Farrel, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life.
Also absent on that occasion was Antonella Frongillo, president of Memores Domini, a lay association of Communion and Liberation, to which the Vatican recently appointed a special delegate with governmental functions, Monsignor Filippo Santoro.
What could be the reasons for this tension between Communion and Liberation and the Vatican? The media raise certain hypotheses, which are not certainties.
The truth is that the resignation of Father Julián Carrón opens the way for the election of a new president. Fr. Stefano Alberto, closely linked to Father Julian, is speculated to be a strong candidate.
In his letter of resignation, Fr. Julian assures that “it has been an honour” to exercise the presidency for so many years [this was his third mandate after the death of the founder, Fr. Luigi Giussani], and asks them to continue to “witness the grace of the charism given by the Holy Spirit .
With information from Infocatolica.