CL: The Bergoglians Rebel Against Bergoglio
- After Francis' election, Don Julián Carrón, a Ratzingerian who was then head of the CL, became more Bergoglian than Bergoglio almost overnight.
- But Francis removed him two years ago anyway; he appointed Davide Prosperi as the new superior of the CL; the Memores Domini, the consecrated arm of the CL, were placed under a commissioner.
- Carrón and his followers didn't accept this and set up a parallel structure within the CL.
- Francis intervened to tell Carrón to stop his activism.
- But after a few months, Carrón went back to holding meetings under the guise of a foundation that runs vocational training courses.
- For this reason, Don Carrón was recently summoned to the Vatican again, but this too did not help much.
- About 80 per cent of CL is on his side and he controls virtually all the local communities in Italy.
- This summer, Carrón and his followers are attending the summer holidays of several CL groups.
- In one case, Carrón held the final meeting of the holiday in front of six hundred people.
- Carrón may be hoping that Cardinal Zuppi of Bologna, his friend and sponsor, will be the next Pope.
- The current president of CL, Davide Prosperi, is weak and timid.
- When his mandate expires at the end of November 2026 and elections are held to choose the new CL president, Carrón's candidate will win.
- The stronghold of CL was the university students of CL who now have virtually disappeared.
- There are small groups of renewal (Quaerere Deum in Lombardy, Aficionados in Apulia) that are expanding and show the missionary enthusiasm that CL had thirty years ago when it was still Catholic.
Picture: Julián Carrón © wikicommons, CC BY-SA, #newsOextgaxevt
