http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26342/pope%e2%80%99s-envoy-for-cult-like-group-linked-to-disgraced-legion-of-christ-says-rules-invalid http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26342/pope%e2%80%99s-envoy-for-cult-like-group-linked-to-disgraced-legion-of-christ-says-rules-invalid#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:16:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26342 The pope’s envoy running the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order says the 1,000-plus rules governing the cult-like life of some of its members are invalid and will be whittled down to a core set of norms.

Pope Benedict XVI took over the Legion last year after the order admitted its Mexican founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered three children.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26342/pope%e2%80%99s-envoy-for-cult-like-group-linked-to-disgraced-legion-of-christ-says-rules-invalid/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26261/exodus-as-popes-legion-of-christ-reform-lags http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26261/exodus-as-popes-legion-of-christ-reform-lags#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:18:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26261 When Pope Benedict XVI took over the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order last year, expectations were high that heads would roll over one of the greatest scandals of the 20th century Roman Catholic Church.

But in the absence of radical change, the movement has seen a dramatic decline in membership since the scandal was revealed in 2009.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26261/exodus-as-popes-legion-of-christ-reform-lags/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25270/popes-legionaries-of-christ-delegate-warns-of-shipwreck http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25270/popes-legionaries-of-christ-delegate-warns-of-shipwreck#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:48:33 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25270 The papal official running the disgraced Legionaries of Christ has warned that the conservative order faces "certain shipwreck" unless its superiors and members work together to change course following revelations that their founder led a double life.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25270/popes-legionaries-of-christ-delegate-warns-of-shipwreck/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25175/vatican-taps-investigator-for-regnum-christi-group-tied-to-legionaries-of-christ http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25175/vatican-taps-investigator-for-regnum-christi-group-tied-to-legionaries-of-christ#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:35:30 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25175 The Vatican has named a Spanish archbishop to investigate Regnum Christi, a cult-like group affiliated with the Legionaries of Christ, the conservative religious order disgraced by revelations its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered three children.

In an investigative report over the weekend, The Associated Press exposed the cult-like conditions in which the women of Regnum Christi live.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25175/vatican-taps-investigator-for-regnum-christi-group-tied-to-legionaries-of-christ/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23385/legionaries-of-christ-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23385/legionaries-of-christ-2#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:16:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23385 Pope Benedict XVI has ordered a probe into the ultra-conservative Legionaries of Christ after allegations that the order's late founder Marcial Maciel secretly fathered a child.

The leadership recently admitted that Maciel, a cult figure among Legionaries, led a "double life" after the discovery of his liaison with the mother of his daughter.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23385/legionaries-of-christ-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23242/marcial-maciel-degollado-legionaries-christ http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23242/marcial-maciel-degollado-legionaries-christ#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:23:46 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23242 The Legionaries of Christ, an influential Roman Catholic religious order, have been shaken by new revelations that their founder, who died a year ago, had an affair with a woman and fathered a daughter just as he and his thriving conservative order were winning the acclaim of Pope John Paul II.

Jim Fair, a spokesman for the Legionaries, said only: “We have learned some things about our founder’s life that are surprising and difficult for us to understand. We can confirm that there are some aspects of his life that were not appropriate for a Catholic priest.”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23242/marcial-maciel-degollado-legionaries-christ/feed 0