The leaders of the Legionary of Christ wrote a communiqué to the Legion's members, its friends, and to all those affected or wounded by the actions of their founder, Fr Marcial Maciel. They apologized for the injuries that were done and for their failure to listen to those who had brought these things to their attention. Moreover they commented on their attitude towards the future.
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010Legionaries of Christ
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Fr. Thomas Berg points to four problems present to the Legionaries: (1) their inability to engage in communal, honest and objective self-critique; (2) a mistaken understanding of religious obedience that involves an excessive dependence on the superior and disallows criticism of a superior; (3) continuing to seek vocations as usual, in spite of the serious present concerns; (4) depriving their seminarians of honest information about the Legion, including the criticisms made against it and an admission from the major superiors of the Legion's errors
Questions for those discerning a religious vocation
Monday, January 5th, 2009Fr. Philip Powell gives some good practical points, and questions that those discerning a religious vocation should ask themselves. These questions to ask when discerning a vocation may be found, together with comments on the Anti-Christ, and the difference between magic and prayer, at his blog Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!
Single vocation?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Someone was asking recently whether it is true that there are only two vocations–marriage and religious life–and that being single isn't really a vocation. Actually, when you get down to it, there is only one vocation: the vocation to love. In Familiaris Consortio, Pope John Paul says: 11. God created man in His own image [...]
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