President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation; in September 2004 he moved to Milan, called by Luigi Giussani, to share with him in the responsibility of the leadership of the whole Movement, he will officially become its leader from March 2005. On August of the same year, he was received for the first time in a private audience by Pope Benedict XVI in his capacity as the President of the Fraternity of CL.
On May 19, 2011, the Pope  appointed him Consultor of the new Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.
Before coming to Italy, he has  taught at the San Dámaso Institute of Theology, Religious Science, and Catechetics, the Complutense University of Madrid and the San Dámaso Faculty of Theology in Madrid.
He is been a professor of Theology at the Catholic University of Milan since the academic year 2004-2005.