On February 22, 2012, at the conclusion of the Mass celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Scola in the Cathedral of Milan, on the 30th Anniversary of the pontifical recognition of the Fraternity of CL and on the 7th Anniversary of the death of Father Luigi Giussani, Father Julián Carrón, president of the Fraternity of CL, announced that he presented to the Archbishop of Milan the request to open the cause for the beatification and canonization of Father Luigi Giussani.

The request was submitted on 22nd February 2012 (Fr. Giussani’s anniversary and Solemnity of the Chair of St. Peter), through the postulator named by the President of the Fraternity appointed as petitioner of the Cause: Professor Chiara Minelli, Lecturer of Canon and Ecclesiastical Law at the Università degli Studi of Brescia.

The request has been made to the Archbishop of Milan – in whose Diocese Father Giussani, a diocesan priest, was born, lived and worked – in accordance with the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister, 25.I.1983, the Normae servandae in inquisitionibus ab Episcopis faciendis in causis sanctorum dated 7.II.1983, nos.11-15, and the Instructio Sanctorum Mater, 17.V.2007, Part II, Title I, art. 25 § 1 and 2. The petitioner asked the Archbishop to open the Diocesan Informative Inquiry into the life, the virtues and the reputation of Sanctity of Monsignor Luigi Giussani.

Giving the news, don Carrón prays that “Our Lady - ‘living fountain of hope’ - help us every day to be made worthy of the promises of Christ and of the immense grace that we received and are still receiving in the charism of Father Giussani”.