Rome (Fides Service) – Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope’s vicar General for the diocese of Rome, will ordain 6 priests and 5 deacons for the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo. The solemn liturgy will be celebrated on Saturday 21 June in St John’s Basilica. Five of the new priests will go on mission, respectively to Taipei (Taiwan), Alcorcon (Spain), Emmendingen (Germany) and Prague (Czech Republic), one will continue his studies in Rome at the Institute of Oriental Theology, before being sent on mission.
The Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St Charles Borromeo, founded in 1985 by Mgr Massimo Camisasca, was recognised by Pope John Paul II as a Society of Apostolic life of Pontifical right, on 19 March 1999. Today the fraternity has about 110 priests, mostly aged between 25 and 45, whose aim is to take part in the mission of the Church in keeping with the charisma of the Church Movement Communion and Liberation. They are present in Austria, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Kenya, Siberia, Taiwan, USA, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and since recently also in Mexico, where two priests are in charge of pastoral work in a parish and mission among young people, especially at the University. SL (Fides Service 20/6/2003 EM lines 38 Words: 478)