New Catholic order to arrive at Newman Center
The Christian Life Movement plans to adjust to its new role before considering any changes
The new leadership of Penn’s Newman Center aims to create a harmonious relationship between the center and the local West Philadelphia Community, by getting studetns to volunteer to work with the underprivileged and poor living in the neighborhood.
By Fola Onifade · December 3, 2013, 8:27 pm · Updated December 3, 2013, 9:53 pm
A conservative youth-oriented leadership group aims to make the Penn Newman Center a hub for Christian dialogue when it assumes leadership of the center next summer.
The Christian Life Movement, which will start directing the Newman Center on July 1, 2014, is new to not only Penn but to the state of Pennsylvania and will adjust to its new role before considering any changes. The Catholic order is an “ecclesial movement that has an emphasis in the evangelization of culture, young people, the poor, families and the promotion of life,” said religious brother and CLM member Brian Shannon.
Shannon, who is currently in Colorado, will be the supervisor of the priest and four consecrated laymen who will assume leadership of the parish and the center. Although this is the first time in 100 years that the center will be led by a group, as opposed to one individual priest, the archdiocese did not specify a reason for the change in leadership.
The CLM is known for being a more conservative order of Catholicism, while Penn — like most of its peer schools schools — tends to lean more liberal. When asked about the possible conflicts that may arise from differing ideologies, Shannon challenged the notion of true liberalism. “If [one] is truly liberal, he should welcome all decisions,” Shannon said. “It actually defeats the purpose of defining yourself as liberal if you’re closed off to ideas you don’t like.”
http://www.thedp.com/article/2013/12/christian-life-movement-newman-center-catholic
That's easy. The Archbishop is Chaput.
The Christian Life Movement (CLM) is an ecclesial movement with a spirituality and style of its own, within the Catholic Church. It is an International Association of Christian Faithful of Pontifical Right.
The CLM is a community where a true encounter with the Lord Jesus takes place. Its members look to live an authentic and commited Christian life in which they discover the deep call to proclaim the Gospel and announce the love of the Lord to all the people around the world.
The Christian Life Movement was founded in 1985 in Peru. At that time, a number of initiatives from members of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, now a Society of Apostolic Life, had already begun to bloom. Luis Fernando Figari, the Founder of the Sodalitium, conceived the idea of gathering those people and ideas together in an ecclesiastic movement. Thus, the Christian Life Movement was born as fruit of an apostolate that had been blessed by the Holy Spirit.
Communities of the Christian Life Movement have been spreading throughout Peru and neighboring countries in America ever since. As time went by, with the maturity and the growth of the movement, the CLM received the Holy See's recognition as International Association of Christian Faithful of Pontifical Right. This took place on March 23, 1994, precisely on the feast day of Saint Toribio of Mogrovejo. The Christian Life Movement obtained recognition of the Apostolic See through a Decree of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, presided over by His Excellency Cardinal Eduardo Pironio.
http://www.clmusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=54
The Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) is composed mainly of consecrated laymen but it also includes priests, who make promises of celibacy and obedience and who live in community. Married couples may also participate. The Sodalitium is closely associated with the Christian Life Movement and the Marian Community of Reconciliation for consecrated laywomen.
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Sodalitium Christianae Vitae as a conservative movement
Sodalitium Christianae Vitae is widely considered to be a conservative organization because of its strong stance against liberalism, secularism and Marxism, and its promotion of official Catholic doctrine in all matters, including issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion. SCV has been strongly supported by members of the hierarchy including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope John Paul II, Franciscan Cardinal Juan Landazuri Ricketts, Jesuit Cardinal Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Opus Dei Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, as well as from many other bishops. Sodalitium Christanae Vitae has been criticized for its mobilization against Liberation Theology within the Catholic Church in Latin America, which was particularly influential during the 70's and 80's.
In Peru, the Vatican's appointment of two bishops from the Sodalitium, in 2002 and 2006, together with the presence of 10 bishops affliliated to Opus Dei, has been seen as a notable boost to the conservative influence in the Catholic Church in the country. On 2007, precisely when the legalization of therapeutic abortion was on the legislative agenda of the country, one of Sodalitium bishops, then President of the Peruvian Bishops Commission on Family, Childhood and Life, did direct lobbying for pro-life with the Peruvian government on abortion issues Earlier that year, there was great controversy when Bishop Kay Schmalhausen, member of SCV and Prelate of Ayaviri, removed from the prelature a priest committed to tenets of liberation theology with great outrage by many local priests.Sodalitium Christianae Vitae as a conservative movement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodalitium_Christianae_Vitae#Sodalitium_Christianae_Vitae_as_a_conservative_movement[div]
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