ROME
Catholic News Agency
Rome, Italy, Oct 5, 2013 / 01:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Papal delegate overseeing the Legion of Christ has announced that the order’s general chapter will commence Jan. 8, 2014, to establish new constitutions for the order and to elect its new leaders.
“The General Chapter should represent the whole institute and be ‘a true sign of its unity in charity,’” Cardinal Velasio De Paolis wrote in an Oct. 4 letter to the Legionaries of Christ.
“The upcoming Extraordinary General Chapter comes at the end of a long journey of spiritual renewal and will have as its principle purpose the conclusion of the revising of the Constitutions.”
Cardinal De Paolis was appointed as governor of the Legion by Benedict XVI in 2010, after an apostolic visitation determined the order needed “profound re-evaluation.”
In 2006, the order’s founder, Fr. Marcel Maciel, had been removed from public ministry and invited to a life of penitence and prayer, as it was discovered he had led a secret life of impropriety.
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