Why You and Not the Others?

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God could have generated beings who responded mechanically, without the possibility of error, but He preferred to run the risk of freedom!
— Julián Carrón
Julián Carrón Why You and not the Others

Julián Carrón - A 19-year-old asks whether life with oppressive parents is worth living. Carrón's reply: "Who's stopping you from saying 'I'?

Lunch with the Young People at the Cascinello with Julián Carrón Abbiategrasso, May 24, 2026

Intervention. For years I've been carrying a question inside me that, in my opinion, is a pretty deep one. I've always had many friends who are very different from one another, even outside this community. The thing that has always made me angry—I really don't quite believe there's Anyone up there—is that I consider myself lucky to have parents and friends who love me, whereas, when I go to other friends' homes and see certain family situations, I find myself thinking: "Why did Jesus give them parents like that, and give me two parents I can't complain about?" This makes me angry because, having a big heart, I'd give my parents to my friends so they, too, could have better parents—at least for a few days. Besides, certain situations can lead you to do certain things... This makes me angry, because I say, "Either give everyone difficult parents, or give everyone parents who love them." I ask myself: why? At this point, I'd rather be one of them than the lucky one.

Julián Carrón. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for inviting me to this dialogue. The question he raises is a recurring one. Since you've been carrying it for so long, have you found any hint of an answer? You have found yourself before the Mystery's preference for you personally, but not everyone has received it the way you have: why, in your opinion? Is it unfair? You find yourself asking this question because, deep down, you think it's unfair, don't you? Why you and not the others? What do you all say? Let's open the discussion right here! Is it unfair, in your opinion? It's a fact: He doesn't give everyone the same things, in the same way, on the same day, in the same situation… What we're describing is a fact. But we need to help each other understand this fact, which is real! We can't deny the evidence of the fact, can we? So this is an opportunity to dig into the why. Any suggestions?

Intervention. I've had an experience very similar to his. I'm studying psychology and doing an internship at a child protective services office: it's a place where social workers and psychologists evaluate parenting competency in reported cases where legal proceedings are underway; these are very complex, very delicate, dramatic situations involving mistreatment and abuse... We're there, on the one hand, to advise on how to intervene, and on the other, to keep those people company, because very often they have nowhere else to go. So, why am I lucky and they aren't? I experience a disproportion between what I'm living, the questions I care about most, what I'm discovering, and what I then face in reality. Basically, it's a place that takes charge of families who have been reported to the court, and in any case very heavy decisions get made. My problem of discovering more and more "who I am" seems like too little compared to the problems that exist there. I meet people with stories where there's almost never a glimmer of hope—children who seem abandoned, whom no one really thinks about, who are suffering, who are hurting so badly that their problem is something else entirely. Most of them end up getting sick, and sometimes, listening to them in our sessions, compared to my own experience, I say: "The fact is, you were abandoned." And why were they abandoned like that? Everything I have in my life—what does it have to do with them? What does it have to do with the explosion I feel in my heart? Sometimes I look at them and I just want to tell them they're right: "Life is a rip-off." And I feel run aground, as if the experience I'm having only counts in places where we're all the same. Then I go home angry, because looking at them as unlucky doesn't sit right with me. It doesn't sit right, because I'm there...

Julián. What question does that make surge up in you?

Intervention. This disproportion I feel speaks to everything: what am I doing there? What's the meaning of this disproportion, and what does it have to do with my experience? Because I keep looking for something more than saying, "They're unlucky." Even if it's probably not my doing that will change their lives. But saying "we're lucky and they're unlucky" doesn't sit right with me. I ask myself: why?

Julián. It doesn't convince you.

Intervention. It seems like a mockery to me, too—and I'm right there.

Julián. Perfect—and so? See, when you take the question he asked seriously, just saying "luck or bad luck" doesn't convince you. Why? What answer do you give yourself? I care about our grasping the method from the very first moment. Our friend who spoke first feels the impact he described: starting from his experience, he feels lucky to have been born into a certain context, to have certain friends, and so on. That's a fact. But this fact is challenged by another fact: other friends of his don't have this luck. So, faced with his question, and with the experience you described, you realized that saying "lucky or unlucky" is not enough. Each of us is invited to take seriously the question he has. For you—why doesn't it fully convince you that that's simply how things are?

Intervention. Because, if it's only for me, what do I do with it?

Julián. Perfect. So, the first thing is: "If it's only for me, what do I do with it?" This is why it was given to you—for others, for the people you meet—but so often we struggle to understand this. Why? Because the Mystery, who brought certain people into your life, could have imposed it on everyone in an instant, with total evidence. If you had in your hands all the resources of the Mystery to design the world according to your own image—since there are some who receive something and others who don't, some who respond and others who don't—what would you do in God's place? Let's see how your genius challenges the Mystery's design. What would you do to avoid this fact that makes you uncomfortable? What would you do, faced with the same question? We came here to work! We didn't come just to listen. What would you do? I'll grant you all the resources you want—all the ones God has.

Intervention. I'd have children born to people who love them.

Julián. Don't change the question. You said it strikes you that some people have this situation and others don't. Faced with that, what would you do? Your answer is what God did at the beginning of history: He created man in an amazing situation. The Bible speaks of the Garden of Eden, where God walked with the first humans in the evening—such was His familiarity with them. He created them that way. Why do you think it all went wrong? What should the Mystery have done to keep the situation we see from happening? Because, at the origin, God did exactly what you would have wished. What set off the problem? Is the question clear?

Intervention. No, I don't understand.

Julián. At the origin, God created man in the best possible conditions for being welcomed, for being embraced, in a familiarity with Him so great that it was paradise. That's how He began. There's a detail in the first chapters of the Bible that has always struck me: God would come down every evening to walk with man—such was the familiarity at the beginning. Why, then, did everything get complicated afterward? If we don't understand this, we'll struggle to grasp the issue all the way down. Why, in your opinion, did everything get complicated, if that's how it was at the beginning? What was the unforeseeable factor?

Intervention. Freedom.

Julián. Perfect: freedom. Freedom was in play from minute one—even in those who had received everything, as you put it. From minute one! There was no negative influence, no abuse, no abandonment, nothing disturbing—there was nothing, nothing at all, that could have led mechanically to the confusion that came later. So, for God, it would have been easy to prevent it. But it happened, because God created man free; He created a man who, in the best of contexts, was able to say "no." So, in the end, whom do we blame for all this? God. "He created us free, and therefore it's God's fault." To avoid the problem, would you take away from man and woman that little piece that complicated everything—the thing called freedom?

It would have cost the Mystery nothing to do it. Think how many beings there are in the universe that function mechanically, with a precision that amazes us: everything works in harmony, according to pre-established laws. So much so that the more we look at this astonishing order of the universe, the better we know it, thanks to all the instruments we have now... Think of Artemis II, of the footage shot with an iPhone as if we were touching the moon with our fingertips, with a precision that makes Apollo look antediluvian... So, for the Mystery, it would have been no problem at all to make other beings that responded mechanically to a system of laws. Would you, to avoid problems, take man's freedom away?

I'm thinking of the legendary conversation—I've recounted it many times—that I had years ago with a taxi driver in Milan. I wasn't in the habit of taking taxis, and on that rare occasion I found myself with a "theologian" taxi driver; he was reading a book of theology. He chatted with me about this and that, and at a certain point he started firing away... against whom, of course? Against God: "How is it possible that all this happens in the world—the pain, the suffering, the violence?!" And I kept pressing him, pouring fuel on the fire; I wasn't trying to calm him down—on the contrary, I kept giving him more facts, and the more I did, the more fired up he got: "Yes, that! That's exactly the point!"

At a certain moment I stopped and said to him: "Would you like—to prevent your wife from cheating on you (she's a human being, she's free, she could be unfaithful to you)—would you like to be loved by her without running that risk, and therefore without freedom? That is, would you prefer that your wife love you mechanically? Would you like to be loved freely or mechanically, according to laws God could have imposed on your wife?" He didn't hesitate an instant: "I'd like to be loved freely!" "And do you think God desires to be loved freely any less than you do? God could have generated beings who responded mechanically, without the possibility of error, but He preferred to run the risk of freedom!" And you, my friend—would you like to run the risk of freedom and find a boyfriend who loves you freely, or, to avoid the risk, would you rather get yourself a dog? Or a device you can control? Everyone has to answer this question! Whether he prefers to be loved freely, with the risk of freedom, or to be loved mechanically, to avoid risks.

Once you understand this, everything else is easy, because God created us this way; He generated the human being by giving him freedom, because He preferred to be loved freely by Adam and Eve, and He wanted them to love each other freely, not to be locked into a law that would suffocate them both. Imagine a relationship where one person suffocates under the pressure of the other. Does a relationship like that interest you? How long would you last? This is why, from the beginning, God created man this way. And so the only way to build something human, something true, something free, is to leave room for freedom—and therefore to leave room for mistakes: yours, mine, your friends', your girlfriend's or boyfriend's. If we don't understand this, in the end we'll be dreaming of a world—a relationship—without risks. Because where freedom is in play, there is risk.

When I was a young priest in Madrid, my job was to accompany a group of high school students, and I was helped by a man who had left the Movement. I used to tell him: "Look, the difference between you and me is right there in the name of the educational method. Your founder's educational method is called 'the forge of men.'" Do you know what a forge is?

If you want to shape a piece of iron, you put it in the fire, and when it's red-hot, you give it the shape you want. It gets modeled according to the master's design. Someone might think he'd like to be forged that way. Giussani's method, instead, is "the risk of education." Have you heard of The Risk of Education? Someone who runs the risk of freedom. That's why I'm here; otherwise I wouldn't be interested at all. So each person has to decide—as human beings decided at the beginning of creation, in the Garden of Eden—each person has to decide now, whatever situation he finds himself in, whether he prefers a world determined by rules that constrain you, that suffocate you, that leave you no room for freedom, or whether he prefers a free world.

God, afterward, began to rethink His whole design starting from this freedom. Let me give you an example, and then I'll wrap up. If you, in the situation we're describing, had to start over from scratch to change the world, where would you begin? We're immersed in confusion, multiplied in the present at every level: personal, communal, international, and so on. Where would you begin to change the world? If I gave you all of God's resources, along with all the factors you have, where would you begin? Who'll take the risk? Let each of you think of a hypothesis, whether you say it out loud or not: where would you begin to change the world?

Intervention. With myself.

Julián. Who else wants to offer his hypothesis?

Intervention. With what changes me.

Julián. Does everyone have a hypothesis? Let's compare what each of you has in his little head with what God did. Would anyone have started with Abraham? Silence. It didn't cross anyone's mind that God, to begin changing history, formed no army, created no artificial intelligence, built no grand systems—He began by knocking on one man's door! Abraham said "yes," and from there everything began. We are here following the same method God used with Abraham. You, we—we belong to the history God generated with Abraham. And what's the best thing Abraham did for us?

He said "yes." It seemed like nothing. What does Abraham's "yes" have to do with us? Because without his "yes," or without Our Lady's "yes," we wouldn't be here. What could Our Lady have done that was more important for the world, for history, for all the people you meet every day at your internship? Say "yes" to the Angel's announcement. When the Mystery knocked at her door, she said: "Here I am! Let it be done according to Your word. I will go along with this initiative, this preference of God's, even though I don't understand it!"

And from there, what came? Christ, the greatest gift history has ever known. This is the method; this is what happened to us! What did Fr. Giussani do for us? He said "yes"—to that gift, to the way the Mystery knocked at his door. We are here because of the "yes" of a man, a "yes" that has reached all the way down to us. It has reached you so that you, right where you are, can bring to others this gift that was given to you. Because God does not impose it by force.

Peter, in the Garden of Gethsemane, when they come to arrest Jesus to crucify Him, pulls out his sword, thinking that's how he'll give Him a hand! Jesus says to him: "Are you crazy? Don't you realize my Father has legions of angels and could have flattened them all?"

But God doesn't act that way, because He prefers to be loved freely. Jesus does the same. And so does anyone who understands that the only access to truth is freedom, and refuses to impose himself. What can we do for others? For the people we worry about because they haven't received what we've received? What can you do, when you feel that trepidation for others? Impose yourselves? Scold them? What can you do? Shine with what has happened to you! Either they see it in the sparkle of your eyes, or all your worrying about them does them no good.

You've experienced this yourselves: precisely because your parents cared about you, they went along—they said "yes" to the gift of God that knocked at their door. You were born from the "yes" of those who came before you. What could your parents do for you? Say "yes." What can you do for your friends? Shine!!! Not a lot of speeches, guys. Just one thing: live! Live in front of others! Otherwise, all our concern for others is hot air. Clear?

Intervention. Actually, I wanted to ask a friend if he'd share what he told me earlier. Because what you're saying is exactly what I lived earlier, at lunch with him.

Intervention. I'm 19. I'm going through a moment where I feel like I'm holding my breath. Partly because of my family situation: I have very oppressive parents who are doing the exact opposite of what I'm essentially trying to do. At the same time, I'm deciding my life around my choice of university, and I'm asking myself how much sense it makes to stay in a family where all they ever give me is stopping me from doing anything and tearing down everything I propose. Earlier I was talking with him about exactly that choice—what to do or not to do. I don't know if this is worth saying; I don't know if I measure up to Julián. I'm sorry.

Julián. You measure up, because it's your lived experience.

Intervention. Yes, but at times—at least for me—in this society you never measure up... I'm a 19-year-old guy who's done this and that in life, and who, most of the time, feels inferior to the idea he has of himself, inferior to the person he imagines himself to be. I don't know if…

Julián. Clear!

Intervention. So, really, my point was this: trying to understand whether it makes sense to make use of the freedom God gave us in order to live—to live and even to make mistakes, to feel pain, but a pain we brought on ourselves, that no one else caused; my parents didn't do it to me, I did it to myself... Or whether, instead, I should accept the fact that my parents chose to be this way and that, as a result, I have to adapt. That's what clashes a bit with the idea of staying with my family or leaving.

Julián. Perfect. Can I tell you something? Let me tell you about something that happened to me this week. A person who now works in the United States called me to tell me about the episode that has changed her in this last stretch. The previous time we had spoken, a year and a half ago, she was in another country, going through a period—like what you were saying about your family—that was very demanding. She had dumped on me all her complaints about work: the boss, the coworkers… everything you can imagine, just thrown out there.

All it took was one sentence: "But who's stopping you from saying 'I' in this situation?" Now, a year and a half later, she called me just to thank me, because that sentence had changed her. It was like the point of no return of her life. She changed jobs, changed countries—but it was she who was different. She was full of gratitude. Why? Of all the people she had talked to, no one—absolutely no one—beyond consoling her and telling her she'd have to muddle through the situation, beyond giving her assorted useless advice, no one had challenged her to take up the resources of her own "I," to say "I" in that situation! Then she told me: "Let me tell you what happened to me last week. A friend who lives here where I live unloaded on me all the complaints I had unloaded on you. I made her the same proposal you had made to me, and yesterday she called to thank me, because no one had ever said anything like that to her."

So, guys, the problem is whether each of us believes in the capacity of his own "I" to stand before reality: right now, for you, it's your family—but who's stopping you from saying "I" and refusing to be determined by the pim, pum, pam of circumstances? Verify this, and the next time we meet, we'll see what has happened. Otherwise, we think of ourselves as parts of a mechanism, as if we were stuck inside a situation—as she said about her internship—but deep down no one believes that the resource to say "I" still exists within the person, and so no one will ever discover it. Since most people don't believe in this, they grow weaker and weaker.

They go "from pillar to post," following this person or that, becoming more fragile instead of growing. If you want to grow, you have to set out on a journey: "This complicated situation I'm in—how can I live it in a way that doesn't crush me?" And what if this were the way you help offer a working hypothesis to your parents, too? Who knows whether the Mystery isn't choosing you to bring some spark of newness into the context you live in? Each person has to verify this!

Otherwise, we'd just be a collection of "whiners" with nothing better to do than complain about the situation! Don't count on me for that. Find someone else. I will accompany you to victory over the circumstances: not that the circumstances have to change, but that you can live them freely! This is the newness Christ introduced into history: from the moment He entered history, He began to generate people like this.

After the wonder of today's feast [Pentecost, ed.], I am always struck by the reading from the Acts of the Apostles that recounts how, after the Resurrection, the apostles went up to the Temple. Peter and John meet a man crippled from birth, begging for alms. Peter says to him: "I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, walk!" (Acts 3:6). The man, crippled from birth, gets up off his mat and begins to walk.

This makes the powers that be angry, and the two are brought before the Sanhedrin. Picture them: two ordinary men of the people, uneducated and illiterate—at that time, 2,000 years ago, the vast majority of people were illiterate—standing before the highest assembly of "scholars" and influential figures: the Sanhedrin. But right there, where they could have felt crushed in advance by the imposing weight of that assembly, the newness of their person emerges. Everyone in the Sanhedrin is astonished, because these two illiterate men speak with a freedom, with a boldness so guileless, and with such intelligence about things, that they leave them dumbfounded.

Those learned men, experts in dialectic, cannot explain to themselves how two uneducated men could be so free and so daring in front of them. And they make the connection: they can find no other explanation than that these two are friends of Jesus. In the relationship with Him, an "I" had been generated—John's and Peter's—capable of challenging an assembly that could instill fear and dread. We belong to a history like this.

A history that generates people like this. Otherwise, what would Christianity matter to me? If it couldn't generate a person capable of standing before the circumstances, the challenges, the difficulties she meets at her internship—or he with his friends? It wouldn't interest me at all. We can say He is the "Savior," but if I feel crushed in every circumstance, if I can't live freely, why should I care? Instead, the more the apostles lived with Him, the more they were generated like this. Does that interest you? Or would you rather simply be at the mercy of everything?

Intervention. But you get the feeling that, the moment you try to resist this oppression, this erasure of the "I," it ends up amounting to surviving rather than living. So, rather than changing things or walking away, I stay and try to resist, but at the same time I erase myself, because what they want for me—I'm speaking in general terms—isn't completely at odds with the life I'm looking for.

Julián. And so, what do you want to do? The choice is in front of you.

Intervention. But don't you risk just surviving, trying to adapt, or at least trying to…

Julián. You can try to survive—but verify whether, by surviving, you're enjoying life! I don't want to survive. Do you? You're free! Verify it. But if you happen to meet someone who is free, you say: "Hey, I'd love to be like that!" See? As soon as someone finds the answer, it happens. It happens! It's not that you reason your way there—it happens, and your face changes!

Intervention. Freedom within the circumstances interests me a lot, but it doesn't sit right with me, because it seems like a question of my own capacity. In recent months I've been facing a series of circumstances in which I found myself very free the moment I discovered that I desire to love and to care for others. Discovering this means not depending on the circumstances. But it seems to me that this position is absolutely not something I can live on my own.

Julián. Agreed.

Intervention. So it bothers me, because before, I lived weeks that were beautiful and full of this grace; whereas in recent weeks I've settled back into the images I want, the things I already know. But if I have to wait for it to happen again, then..

Julián. There—very good! Let's follow that. So, what do you need?

Intervention. How do I ask for it?

Julián. As I said before, answering him: those two illiterate men who stand before the Sanhedrin needed to be generated in a place. It's not a capacity they gave themselves; they could never have imagined it without having been generated in a place: their relationship with Jesus. Where do you find a place that answers this question of yours?

That allows you to be generated? It's not that you have to perform. The question is: if you recognize that you want to love, what's the first thing you have to accept? Letting yourself be loved. Because no one gives what he does not have. So the first gesture of your freedom is to let yourself be loved in a place—as John and Andrew did—a place that allowed them to start over again and again: when they made mistakes, when they failed, when they made an attempt, when they ran into difficulties. Do you remember Peter, in the Gospel?

How many mistakes did Peter make? Right up to the last moment. What constantly regenerated him? A relationship. Look: no special performance is required—simply recognizing the place where you are constantly set back in motion. So, having these difficulties is part of loving—loving yourself and the people you live with.

Julián. Hi! How's it going?

Intervention. Good. "I want to be happy always." I don't care if someone tells me he's happy for a little while. If I'm going to follow Jesus, I want to be happy always—otherwise, who cares?

Julián. And what steps have you taken to verify what makes you happy always?

Intervention. It happened this week.

Julián. Bravo!

Intervention. Because I have a great time studying—I'm in the middle of exams, it's the happiest time of my life... But if I came here, making the sacrifice of not studying, and didn't wake up tomorrow morning happier than I woke up this morning, honestly, coming here wouldn't matter to me. What interests me is discovering people who are happy—and that makes me want to be even happier myself.

Julián. Does anyone here have some answer to his question? What makes us happy always, not just once in a while? That's the million-dollar question. We all agree with him: we don't want to be happy only a few times in our lives. This is a question I want to leave open as homework for the summer because, exactly as we've been saying, we cannot discover these things except through our freedom. You don't discover the important things in life through an explanation. You discover them through a discovery that happens—that you live in your own experience.

So this summer, let each of you live, do everything you want to do—ideas, projects, desires, everything, whatever you have in mind—always keeping one eye on the question: "What makes me happy in any situation that has happened or is happening?" And the next time you get together, try to share what you've found. Because you discover it only in experience.

And what are our needs, our desires? I'd like to be loved, I'd like to find a girlfriend or a boyfriend... It's not about reading cards to guess who the boyfriend or girlfriend is: each of us has to pay attention to reality, to see where he intercepts that presence that makes him jump. Each person discovers it by living and staying attentive to the real—to what happens in life—so he can enjoy it!

So, if we're attentive, we'll see it in reality; our experience will reveal it. Do you realize it when someone loves you, or do you need to go see a therapist? You don't need anything other than what happens inside you, in your experience. Each of you will be able to answer the question he asked about happiness—by living! And since this interests everyone, it's a verification for everyone. Clear? Have a great adventure, guys!

Intervention. Will we see each other again in September?

Julián. Yes, we'll see each other again in September. Okay. Life is urgent!

Intervention. Can I ask you one last thing? Are you truly happy? When, at some point in your life, did you say, "Now I'm really happy"? That's what interests me—your experience.

Julián. But is this something I have to tell you, or something each person has to say for himself? Does it count for anything if I tell you yes or no? Look, and decide. I cannot answer this question in any way other than how I live in front of you. That's how a person perceives the answer to the question he has. It's not that if a stranger passing on the street tells you "I love you" or "I'm happy," you're then certain of it. What convinces you? Seeing it happen in his life.

This is why the method is so important for answering these questions. I'll say it synthetically with a remarkable sentence of Giussani's: "Christianity, being a present Reality, has as its instrument of knowledge [to make itself known] the evidence of an experience." John and Andrew know they have found something that answers their need through "the evidence of an experience." That is why they never turned away from Him. We know who Christ is through "the evidence of an experience."

That is why each of us has to guard his own questions and surprise the answer in his experience. Because He is present... Let's make a comparison: what did Jesus do? Jesus lived in front of everyone: when He went to the synagogue, people were amazed because He spoke with authority, not like the scribes; when He looked at Zacchaeus, when He answered the Samaritan woman, when He raised His friend Lazarus... The more they saw Him act, the more the question erupted in them: "But who is this man?"

They saw it because something was happening before their eyes that the Gospel sums up like this: "We have never seen anything like this!" So it's easy to intercept, because it's not as if we see things every day that amaze us this much. It was easy, because it stirred up the question: "But who is this man? Who is this man who provokes this wonder in us? Who makes us jump like this? Who makes our hearts burn?" And Jesus did not answer that question: we've studied how He "waited" for them to answer it themselves.

Thinking about this way Jesus acted—how He "waited"—an experience everyone has comes to mind. Imagine falling in love and beginning a certain relationship with someone: you start seeing each other, you invite her out, she accepts, and you begin to see the impact that being together has on you. What should you do before taking the step you'd all want to take right away, the moment you're convinced "she's the one"?

What should you do? Wait for her to arrive at the discovery for herself. Yes or no? If you tell her too soon, she crosses you off the list of suitors; if you don't tell her once she has discovered it, she starts getting nervous. Jesus waited like that. Your proposal of marriage will come at the right moment—only when she has reached the certainty you have reached. It's not a strategy; it's that love cannot impose itself: "I love you—you're the love of my life!"… "Hey, slow down, buddy—shouldn't I be the one to discover that?!" Do you agree? Or does the other person have to tell you? So, you discover it only in experience; everything else will follow. But we have to give the other person time to discover it, just as we want to discover it for ourselves. I am waiting for your discovery. Clear? And that way, the adventure never ends. Have a great summer, guys!

Personal notes, not reviewed by the author.

Julián Carrón

Julián Carrón, born in 1950 in Spain, is a Catholic priest and theologian. Ordained in 1975, he obtained a degree in Theology from Comillas Pontifical University. Carrón has held professorships at prestigious institutions, including the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. In 2004, he moved to Milan at the request of Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation. Following Giussani's death in 2005, Carrón became President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, a position he held until 2021. Known for his work on Gospel historicity, Carrón has published extensively and participated in Church synods, meeting with both Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.

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