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Holy See Ends Term for Lumen Dei Leaders
30-07-2008
MADRID, Spain, JULY 30, 2008 (Zenit.org).- A decree from the Vatican ended the leadership of the president and general council of the Lumen Dei Union.
A Monday statement from Lumen Dei's general secretariat informed that the Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life on May 15 appointed retired Archbishop Fernando Aguilar of Pamplona as the papal commissioner for the union, giving him the faculties of president-general.
With this appointment, Lumen Dei Father Daniel Zavala, until then provisional president-general, was relieved of his office.
Recently, the statement reported, "the [Vatican] congregation again reminded Father Zavala that his mandate had ended, with the consequent obligation to abstain from taking measures in the capacity of president of the Lumen Dei Union. Such acts would be illegitimate and invalid."
It added: "At the request of the Holy See, the papal commissioner communicated to the council's members the end of their mandate; moreover, exercising his faculties of president-general, he has relieved the secretary-general, the sister administrator-general and all intermediary superiors of their offices. All members of the Lumen Dei Priestly Union and the Lumen Dei Union have been duly informed of all this."
The religious association is made up of priests, consecrated women religious and laypeople.
It was founded in the 1960s by Spanish Father Rodrigo Molina Rodríguez and a group of laymen in Peru. Today Lumen Dei is present in the United States, Spain and numerous Latin American countries.
