{"id":113069,"date":"2025-06-25T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/?p=113069"},"modified":"2025-07-01T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:35:33","slug":"br-armin-luistro-it-is-a-great-honour-to-serve-the-church-under-the-pontificate-of-pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/br-armin-luistro-it-is-a-great-honour-to-serve-the-church-under-the-pontificate-of-pope-leo-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Br. Armin Luistro: “It is a great honour to serve the Church under the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 24 June 2025, on the day of the 345th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Pope Leo XIV appointed Brother Armin A. Luistro, Superior General, as a member of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of the Apostolic Life, i.e., the body of the Holy See which has the mission to \u201cpromote, encourage and regulate the practice of the evangelical counsels, how they are lived out in the approved forms of consecrated life, and all the matters concerning the life and activity of Societies of Apostolic life throughout the Church\u201d (Praedicate Evangelium\u00a0<\/em>121).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a great honour for me to serve the Church under the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV as a member of a Dicastery of the Roman Curia\u201d, were Brother Armin\u2019s first words of thanks to the Holy Father for his appointment, and to highlight that \u201cI bring with me the joys and hopes, but also the griefs and anxieties of all the women and men who have consecrated their entire lives to the Lord\u2019s service\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Being disciples today<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>

Faced with the new mission entrusted to him by the Church, the Superior General of the Brothers of the Christian Schools underlines the importance of \u201cbeholding more closely the marvellous fruits of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who moves the hearts of the faithful to heed God\u2019s call to discipleship today\u201d.<\/p>\n

Brother Armin also expressed his desire to \u201cgladly share with the other members of the Dicastery my lived experience as a Religious Brother from Asia, engaged in the educational ministry\u201d, by which, he continues, \u201cI hope to learn together with other religious communities the exciting new paths of living our charism in a synodal way\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>

19 appointments from five continents<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>

Among the 19 persons from the five continents that Pope Leo XIV has appointed as members of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, Brother Armin is the only Religious Brother.<\/p>\n

Five cardinals and five bishops have also been appointed: Cardinal Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; Card. Arthur Roche, Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments; Card. Crist\u00f3bal L\u00f3pez Romero, SDB, Archbishop of Rabat (Morocco); Card. Giorgio Marengo, IMC, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia); Card. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, OFM, Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins (Israel); Card. Jaime Spengler, OFM, Archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil), who is also President of the Latin American Episcopal Council; Mgr Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa\u2019ichi, OFM Cap., Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania); Mgr Jerzy Maculewicz, OFM Conv, Apostolic Administrator of Uzbekistan; Mgr Julio C\u00e9sar Salcedo Aquino, MJ, Bishop of Tlaxcala (Mexico); Mgr Thulani Victor Mbuyisa, CMM, Bishop of Kokstad (South Africa); and Mgr Tesfaye Tadesse Gebresilasie, MCCJ, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV has also appointed three other male Superiors General and four female Superiors General. They are: Stanley Lubungo, Superior General of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), Miguel M\u00e1rquez Calle, Superior General of the Discalced Carmelites, and Donato Ogliari, OSB, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome (Italy); and the nuns Chiara Cazzuola, Superior General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, Salesians of Don Bosco; Fran\u00e7oise Petit, Superior General of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; Maria Goretti Lee, Superior General of the Hospitaller Sisters of St. Paul; and Idilia Maria Moreira Gon\u00e7alves Carneiro, Superior General of the Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.<\/p>\n

The list is completed by Miss Luisa Muston, President General of the Secular Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sick \u201cChrist of Hope\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Fidelity to the charism<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>

Among the tasks to be carried out by Brother Armin, together with those who have also been appointed members of the Dicastery for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, is to work closely with Prefect Sister Simona Brambilla \u2013 former Superior General of the Consolata Missionary Sisters and the first woman to hold the office of Prefect in the Vatican Curia, \u201cto ensure that Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life may make progress in following Christ in conformity with the Gospel according to their proper charism stemming from the spirit of the founder and sound traditions\u201d, so that \u201cthey faithfully pursue their own ends and contribute effectively to the building up of the Church and its mission in the world\u201d (Praedicate Evangelium\u00a0<\/em>123).<\/p>\n

\u201cI count on the prayers and support of the Lasallian Family and all women and men of good will so that I may contribute worthily to the renewal of the Church and the transformation of our world,\u201d expressed Brother Armin.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":113065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3269,3386,3367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-generalate","category-holy-see","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113148,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113069\/revisions\/113148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasalle.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}