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 ...

Women who made allegations against a priest in the Legionaries of Christ say the religious order's newly elected superior general mishandled the situation, allowing the priest opportunities to cross ...

The Legionaries of Christ revealed the names of their new general council on Feb. 6, also issuing a formal apology to those hurt by the immoral actions of their founder. The announcement of the new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Representatives of the Legionaries of Christ, meeting to reform their troubled congregation nearly four years after it was effectively taken over by the Vatican, announced a new slate of leaders ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict XVI denied that he was given information about child abuse in the Legionaries of Christ religious order when he was a top Vatican official, in a case that has ...

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 ...

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 ...