Archbishop Edwin O'Brien and Cardinal William H. Keeler at an April 2 prayer service. (CNS) Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of the Legionaries of ...

In 2023 the Legionaries of Christ religious order will provide 32 new priests for service to the Church. Twenty-nine of them will be ordained in Rome in the papal basilica of St. Mary Major on April ...

Instead, Father Marcial Maciel continued as head of the religious order for another five decades before the Vatican removed him from ministry because of allegations of sexual abuse and other ...

As the Legionaries of Christ started their extraordinary general chapter, the cardinal overseeing the troubled congregation said scandal had taken a toll on its finances, but that members had made ...

Vatican investigators have completed their probe into the Legionaries of Christ, the conservative order once hailed by Rome that fell into scandal after it revealed that its founder had fathered a ...

Members of the Legionaries of Christ order walk in St. Peter’s Square after meeting Pope Francis at the end of his weekly general audience, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. (Credit: Alessandra ...

Pope John Paul II blesses Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, at the Vatican in 2004. The Rome-based headquarters of the Legionaries released a report Dec. 21 that ...

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said Friday it had asked the Mexican founder of the conservative order Legionaries of Christ to renounce celebrating public Masses and live a life of "prayer and repentance" ...

The No. 2 official in the conservative Legionaries of Christ order has broken his silence on revelations that the group’s founder had fathered children and abused seminarians, giving an interview on ...