Vatican City, 25 June 2014 (VIS) –
The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi,
S.J., has made public the answers received from the secretary of the
Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies
of Apostolic Life in relation to various questions on the Franciscans
of the Immaculate and the Legionaries of Christ, published in full
below:
“The Franciscans of the Immaculate:
both the commissioner, Fr. Volpi, and all the seminarians of the
Franciscans of the Immaculate were received by the Holy Father on 10
June at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, a gesture that demonstrates the
interest with which Pope Francis follows the situation of the
Franciscans of the Immaculate and his closeness to the work that the
commissioner is carrying out in the name of the Congregation for the
Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life.
The Holy Father is punctually informed of all the steps as they
taken. At the moment a house in Rome is being sought to accommodate
the Friars, brothers of the aforementioned Institute, who attend a
Pontifical university in Rome to pursue their studies.
The Legionaries: as anticipated, with
the celebration of the General Chapter the Institute has returned to
the competence of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated
Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life. This progression has ended
the work of the Apostolic delegate. As a gesture of fraternal
closeness, the prefect and the secretary of the dicastery will meet
on 3 July at the Legionaries' central seat to comment personally on
various corrections that need to be made to the text of the
Constitutions presented to the dicastery, and to communicate the name
of the Pontifical assistant. The corrections to the text of the
Constitutions are very few in number. With regard to the assistant,
the role will be assumed by a consecrated person, as anticipated, who
knows the Legionaries and will be able to be of help to the general
Council on legal and other themes, according to need. It is to be
noted that this figure is an assistant, not a visitator, commissioner
or delegate. The assistant has neither a voice nor a vote, and is
merely an assessor, and was agreed upon before the general Chapter.
The governor general of the Legionaries
attended the Congregation following the Chapter to meet the prefect
and the secretary. On that occasion, the director general had
expressed the wish to receive the prefect and secretary of the
dicastery at the seat of the Legionaries. For this reason Cardinal
Joao Braz de Aviz and Archbishop Jose Rodriguez Carballo will make
their visit on 3 July.
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