The General Religious Assistant of the Visitation Order is named by the Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes after recommendations from the Order.
The Assistant acts as a liason between the Order and the Holy See.
The new General Religious Assistant for the Visitation Order of Holy Mary is Father Francois Corrignan, a priest of St. Francis de Sales.
Below is an article he wrote on “The Universal Call to Holiness- St. Francis de Sales”
http://web1.desales.edu/assets/salesian/PDF/Corrignan-Holiness.pdf