COMMUNION & LIBERATION
THE STORY STARTS TO UNFOLD.
Pope Francis has a close tie to a
movement called Comunione e Liberazione, or Communion and Liberation (CL).
For the Fr. Z Analysis (RE: NCR) click here!
CL grew out of the educational and catechetical
methods of Don Luigi Giussani, who founded the movement. Giussani
developed these methods through his work within the Catholic youth association Gioventù
Studentesca (GS, literally "Student Youth")
CL describes its purpose as "the education to
Christian maturity of its adherents and collaboration in the mission of the
Church in all the spheres of contemporary life."
THE TWO MAIN IDEAS:
1. “That Christ is the saving event in human history,
and that religious authority is a fundamental element of the human condition.
2. “Members place religion at the centre of a new
worldview and in their evangelistic efforts at transforming the
relationship between modern society and religion.”
IT AIMS TO COMMUNICATE:
1. The awareness that Christ is the one true response
to the deepest needs of people in every moment of history.
2. CL says that it requires only that Christ be recognized
as immediately present [As stated by the great saints].
3. The person who encounters and welcomes the
presence of Christ undergoes a conversion that affects not only the individual
but also the surrounding environment.
POPE JOHN PAUL II WAS OPENLY SUPPORTIVE OF CL
In 1984 he encouraged the
movement to develop a worldwide presence, and in a letter to Giussani of February 22, 2004
wrote that CL
"has chosen and chooses to
indicate not a road, but the road . . . The road, as you have affirmed so many
times, is Christ
HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO POPE
EMERITUS BENEDICT?
Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI is said to view CL very favourably.
The then Cardinal Ratzinger, a long time friend
of Don Giussani, personally celebrated the funeral Mass
of Don Giussani.
According to Vatican
reporter John Allen, during this time Cardinal Ratzinger told a priest of CL that
Giussani.....
"changed my life"
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