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All presentations, exhibits, displays, and tours are free and open to the public. No registration required.

The following artistic performance requires a paid admission:

"The Truest Expression of a People Is in its Dance and in its Music." (Agnes de Mille)

Performance Saturday, January 14, 2012, 8:30 pm. An evening of folk dances from Korea, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and the Ukraine. Tickets are $15 and are available online and at the door. Open seating.

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Julián Carrón

Julian CarronJulián Carrón, President, Fraternity of Communion and LiberationJulián Carrón was born in 1950 in Navaconcejo (Cáceres, Spain). While still very young he joined the Conciliar Seminary in Madrid, where he completed high school and theological studies. He was ordained a priest in 1975 and the following year graduated in Theology from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, specializing in Holy Scripture.

He was lecturer at the Madrid Complutense University.

He won a fellowship as Élève Titulaire at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem, where he worked under the direction of M.É. Boismard. He spent one year doing research at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and was lecturer at the School of Theology of the Conciliar Seminary in Madrid.

He headed the Minor Seminary, taught religion and was in charge of pastoral care at the Colegio Arzobispal de la Immaculada y San Dámaso in Madrid, which he directed from 1987 to 1994.

In 1984 he obtained his doctorate in Theology from the Faculty of Theology of Northern Spain, in Burgos. He was lecturer at the San Dámaso Institute of Theology, Religious and Catechetical Sciences, in Madrid, and Professor of New Testament at the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology in Madrid, where he taught “Introduction to Sacred Scripture,” “The Pauline Corpus and Acts of Apostles,” and “The Origins of Christianity.” He was a member of the editorial committee of the series “Studia Semitica Novi Testamenti.” He was director of the San Justino Institute of Classical and Oriental Philology, in Madrid. He has given many presentations on the historicity of the Gospels in Madrid, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Rome, Florence and Rimini, and has given lectures on the theme “In search of the certainty of the historical value of the Gospels” at New York University, the John Paul II Institute at Catholic University in Washington and the University of San Francisco (February 1996). Besides authoring numerous papers in various journals, he published El Mesías manifestado. Tradición literaria y trasfondo judío de Hch 3, 19-26 (Studia Semitica Novi Testamenti 2, Madrid 1993). He was director of the Spanish edition of the international Catholic journal Communio, of the journal Estudios Bíblicos, and also of the Library of the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology in Madrid, and the Institute of Religious Sciences, associated with the Faculty.

In September 2004 he moved to Milan, called by Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of the ecclesial Movement Communion and Liberation, to share the responsibility of leading the entire movement. On March 19, 2005 the Central Diaconia of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation appointed him President of the Fraternity, as successor of Fr. Giussani who had died on February 22, 2005. On May 13, 2005, the Pontifical Council for the Laity appointed him Ecclesiastic Assistant to the Association Memores Domini.

Since the 2004-2005 academic year, he has taught Introduction to Theology at the Catholic University “Sacro Cuore”, in Milan. In 2005 he participated, as a member appointed by the Holy Father, to the Synod of Bishops on the Holy Eucharist. On June 3, 2006, he spoke in St. Peter’s Square during Pope Benedict XVI meeting with the ecclesial movements.

On March 24, 2007, he led the international pilgrimage of Communion and Liberation in St. Peter’s Square for the audience granted by the Holy Father on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the pontifical recognition of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation.

On March 8, 2008, since the term of the mandate given to him on March 19, 2005, to succeed Fr. Giussani in guiding the Movement had expired, the Central Diakonia of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation confirmed his appointment as President of the Fraternity for the next six years.

In April 2008 he was appointed by the Holy Father as Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, and in October 2008 he took part in the Synod as Synodal Father appointed by the Holy Father.

He was the director of the series “I libri dello Spirito Cristiano” published by Rizzoli, and is the director of the record label “Spirto Gentil”, both founded by Fr. Giussani.