Cardinal Rylko welcomes new lay movements, sees varies charisms

November 20, 2014

Representatives of more than 300 lay movements have gathered at the Vatican this week for a conference on ecclesial movements and new communities, organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

Greeting the participants at the opening sessions, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, outlined the teachings of three Pontiffs on the role of the new lay movements. The cardinal recalled that St. John Paul II discerned a “new season of associations for the faithful” and strong encouraged the new movements. Pope Benedict XVI also welcomed “the multiple forms and the unity of charisms and ministries.” And now Pope Francis sees the gifts of the new groups as “not consigned to a specific group to guard it; they are rather gifts from the Spirit integrated into the ecclesial body.”

 

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