The following is taken from silere non possum. It has been translated into english using an online tool & edited slightly for clarity.

The Fraternity of Communion and Liberation for years, he has been experiencing a true and silent abuse by the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life.

These are those offices of the Roman Curia which are led by Kevin Joseph Farrell, who lived in the same house as the abuser, Theodore Edgar McCarrick. Over the years, while McCarrick has been accused of performing the worst actions in his home, Farrel has been elevated to cardinal dignity and has been entrusted with crucial roles of the Roman Curia.

At the moment he is the cardinal who plays all the roles where the most reliable people are placed: Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, President of the Commission of Confidential Matters, President of the Investment Committee and President of the Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) of the Vatican City State. It is good to remember that Kevin Joseph Farrell has never obtained any title in canon law or in economics. 

Together with Farrell, as regards the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, the ambitious Linda Ghisoni was in the front row, known in the sacred rooms for her desire for power. 

To friends, todo, todo, todo

According to the motto of a great mentor of Francis, “Al amigo, todo; the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia and also the dioceses in the world govern the enemigo, for whom there is ni justicia ”. 

As has been pointed out several times, law is being trampled on in the Church today and this is a serious problem. According to what is happening, it is now necessary to start questioning the States that recognize the judgments of the courts of the Holy See, of the diocesan courts and also of the Vatican City State. In fact, if a norm states something, the Pope always acts ‘notwithstanding’ that same text. 

When the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium was issued,  everyone wondered how some rules would apply. Article 17, for example, provides: “§ 4. As a rule, after five years, clerical officers and members of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life who have served in curial institutions and offices return to pastoral care in their Diocese / Eparchy, or in Institutes or Societies of belonging. If the Superiors of the Roman Curia deem it appropriate, the service can be extended for another period of five years “. 

Oscar Zanchetta have you been sentenced with evidence and public trial?

“Yes, but he is the victim of a conspiracy,” the Pope said to his faithful collaborators. This is today’s modus operandi; the Argentine dictators to whom Francesco is inspired were fresh air in comparison. 

Communion and Liberation

This system is also being repeated with regard to movements and associations, religious orders, societies of apostolic life, etc …These are real abuses of power by the ecclesiastical authority against the various realities. The fact that this happens in a historical moment such as the present one in which there are real attempts to eradicate the numerous abuses of conscience that are perpetrated against the weakest in the various communities around the world, is something very serious. 

In the Church what happened in Caltanissetta is happening with the story, well known in Italy, which involved the judge Silvana Saguto. There, a system called “Mafia of Antimafia” was discovered, that is, the mafia was fought with an equally mafioso system. Another mafia, in essence. The same happens in the Church. Abuse is committed in the name of the fight against abuse. By abusing consciences and their power, it is claimed abuse of power is eliminated.

On June 3, 2021 the Dicastery signed a very important decree that it tries, not always successfully, to eliminate the ‘eternal mandates’ of the superiors of these ecclesial realities. In Article 1 it is written: “The mandates in the central government body at an international level can have a maximum duration of five years each “. Just as we will legislate about a year later on the Roman Curia. 

In recent years, unfortunately, serious abuses of power have been committed in Communion and Liberation which have led most of the members of the Fraternity to close in a silence typical of those realities where abuse of conscience is committed. In his book “Crushing the Soul,” Father Dysmas De Lassus explains these dynamics perfectly. What has been repeated several times to Memores Domini, as regards their reality, and to the members of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, as regards their reality, was precisely to keep silent in obedience to the Pope.

Obedience to the Pope has become, since 2013, the balance on which to measure everything and everyone. Those who are victims of this system, however, unfortunately do not have the tools to understand that these are abuses of power, because those who act according to transparency and justice do not need to impose any silence because, even if information comes out, this should not worry them. 

The Minister General of the Carthusian Order writes:

To this question is added another: what is the extension of the secret? If it extends to every person who comes from outside – family, friends, confessor etc. -, are you not setting up an isolation practice that has nothing to do with preserving inner life? If the discipline of secrecy is part of a pyramidal structure and a unique thought, a good part of the elements of a sectarian drift are put in place.

In fact, in a framework of this kind, members of the community who may have doubts no longer have the opportunity to compare them with someone else, neither inside, due to the pyramidal structure, nor outside, because of the secret.

Perhaps we are not trying to ward off any risk of dissent, what makes every totalitarian power? In practice, this type of drift translates into the interdiction to have external exchanges with people, in particular with the family or confessors, on everything related to community life and the personal life of the religious.

In the impossibility of explaining the real reasons for this prohibition, other more acceptable reasons are presented: the need to wash dirty clothes in the family or to keep family secrets, because “they would not understand us” or, also, the somewhat enigmatic word of Jesus: “Do not give holy things to dogs and do not throw your pearls in front of the pigs.” (Mt 7,6). 

These precautions may have some good motivation, which makes it more difficult to discern the threshold beyond which a common sense recommendation becomes a gag. A little bit of discretion on the small defects of the brothers or sisters and on the small gossip of the community doesn’t hurt. But when it comes to a profound unease experienced by the religious or religious, preventing him from talking to external people means forcing him to close himself in his malaise and refuse him any chance of finding the light. 

Prosperi reconfirmed

In spite of the decree mentioned above, Pope Francis on 1st February 2025 signed a letter prepared by Linda Ghisoni and Kevin Farrell. Although Article 3 provided that “All members pleno iure have an active, direct or indirect voice in the establishment of the bodies that elect the central government body at an international level”, the Pope is not interested in what he approved in 2021. 

In the letter he writes: “I arrange that you, Professor Prosperi, remain at the helm of the Fraternity as President for a further five-year term, starting from the natural expiry of the mandate currently underway ». 

But how, the mandates were not five years old? «This is, therefore, a very delicate and, of course, of great ferment in CL’s life for the achievement of that renewed and fundamental ecclesial maturity so much desired, which entails the full and faithful enhancement of his charism, remaining firmly anchored in the Church universal of Our Lord Jesus Christ » continues Francesco. 

For years, therefore, the narration is the same: «CL members are idiots, they cannot elect and decide who should be at their helm, so we do it ». 

This speech is the same that is re-proposed regarding those nations that elect candidates from the political party opposite to those related to the press and therefore the narrative is: “Brogli (electoral fraud) in the elections”. Francis acts in all respects in this way, according to those canons and practices which are typical of a certain political orientation.

In reality, this way of acting – however paternalistic and abusing – hides the flaws of a Dicastery that for years has tried in every way to manipulate the consciences of those belonging to this reality. Joseph Kevin Farrel and Linda Ghisoni have multiple times – we have audio recordings -slandered and defamed Fr Julián Carrón attributing to him actions or intentions that in reality have never even gone through his head. With this excuse, just as happened with Cardinal Cipriani and many others, the Spanish priest was ousted and sent out of government. Restrictions were even imposed on him for which Carrón himself went several times to the Pope to ask for explanations. 

Recently Cardinal Fernandez reported that work is being done on legislating spiritual and conscientious abuse. Welcome but if the application of these rules is despotic and based on personal sentiment or political interests, perhaps it is not appropriate to add elements to those – very numerous – already present. 

From vice to president

In 2021 Davide Prosperi had already been identified by the Dicastery as the right person to succeed Fr Julián Carrón. We must also reflect on these movements and ask ourselves what is happening.

The Holy Pontiff said: “You have to be at the top to be able to see and judge”. Far from feeling “top”, however, we try to climb the high summit in order to have an “overall vision” of what happens in the Catholic Church. It is emblematic that many of those realities that undergo, in fact, a commission, see the “vice” go to the helm of the community.

It happened in Community of Bose, which we talked about for a long time and highlighted the serious abuses committed by Pietro Parolin, Amedeo Cencini, Pietro Parolari and Anna Deodato,and it has happened in many other realities. 

Also in Communion and Liberation. Prosperi, who had been appointed by Carrón as his deputy in 2011, was brought to the pedestal. In 2021 he wrote: “I have accepted the assignment that I hold as an act of obedience to the Holy Father and I wish to carry it out as a service to the life of our company and of each of you. As far as possible, I would like to listen to everyone and give space to the initiative of anyone who wants to collaborate. The witness task that God entrusts to us is great and, as Fr Julián reminded us in his last letter, at this particular moment everyone is called to take responsibility for the charism. I ask each of you to help me bring mine with an advance of trust and esteem ».

An internal source reported to Silere Non Possum:

They don’t actually listen to anyone. In the meetings it is often reiterated how one must “obey”, “answer the requests of the Holy See”.

Prosperi usually says: “The Pope wants”, “The Pope asked me”. This happens every time we also find ourselves in meetings with the leaders of the Dicastery. Everyone puts their ambitions in the Pope’s mouth and sells them as “the Pope’s will”. Francesco, however, is aware of it?

Do you know CL? Are you aware of what has been happening here for years? We are completely divided. They have created division and are aware that a reality like ours is difficult to “manipulate” because we almost all have a certain degree of education, important positions and we are also engaged in different areas of institutions. At the same time though, they manage to manipulate consciences with a few simple words “obedience to the Pope”.

We are all aware that in reality the Pope does not know much and the purpose of the Dicastery is to control a reality that has always been viewed with distrust. Prosperi is the right person to do it because, in the name of a candy that is currently the one of power, he is willing to sell the people who are part of it and also the movement, the charisma, the fraternity.

I was present on several occasions when the Gius [Don Luigi Giussani ed.] met Pope John Paul II. This was not what both wanted. We recently published a podcast in which it is possible to listen to Fr Giussani’s living voice speak of Jesus. Listen to him and you will understand why we followed him. We followed him because he spoke to us of Jesus in that way and made us fall in love with him.