Did Francis Just Commission the Community That Serves Benedict XVI?
The Memores issued from Comunione e Liberazione (CL), an Italian movement founded by Monsignor Luigi Giussani (+2005). It was particularly close to Cardinal Ratzinger.
However, once Francis was elected, CL started supporting positions it would have abhorred a day earlier. Its leader, Spanish Father Julián Carrón, 70, turned out to be a Francis enthusiast.
It seems that Carrón has entered into conflict with a majority of the Memores who insist on their lay autonomy.
They asked Rome for help but instead were put under the tutelage of Cardinal Farrell’s Dicastery for the Laity. Farrell, a former Legionary of Christ, owes his career to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
MessaInLatino.it identifies Jesuit Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, 77, a former assistant to the Legionaries of Christ, as the commissioner.
It also reports about rumours that Francis plans to make Carrón an archbishop and to replace him at CL with a likeminded person.
A group of female Memores have been serving Benedict XVI first as a pope and now in his retirement.
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