Cassandra

On Saturday, August 29 a group of young Legionaries took their religious vows. Here are notes of a friend’s impressions after the ceremonies: Today at 11am was the day of religious professions...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/08/legionary-professions-at-cheshire.html

Subtle Legionary theologians are working out the distinction between Father Maciel’s unedifying private life and Legionary “mystique ,” their idiosyncratic word for religious “charism ,�...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/08/cardinals-and-coverups.html

What a trough of excrement to be tramping through! We read that a lawyer, whose child was molested in a Legionary school in Mexico City, is representing three of Father Maciel’s at least six c...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/08/pope-john-paul-and-this-sorry-chapter.html

“Denver Archbishop Chaput welcomed discontented Legionaries” has appeared on coloradoindependent.com . See also the longer article about visitator Archbishop Chaput below .

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/08/piece-in-colorado-independent.html

I am aware that the departures from their posts this month of Tom Hoopes, Brendan McCaffery, and Fathers Jonathan Morris, Timothy Mulcahey , and Antonio Rodriguez, did not all necessarily occur i...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/07/tom-hoopes-move.html

. How will he now be able to testify to the apostolic visitation about the seminary? Tom Hoopes, National Catholic Register editor, resigned this week. Together with Brendan McCaffery, Chief Ope...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/07/legionary-movements.html

Concepción, Chile Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, the most recently named of the five bishops who are conducting an apostolic visitation of the Legionaries of Christ, has expressed in Spani...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/07/chilean-visitator-says-apostolic.html

Life-after-rc the other day reported that there is evidence that the Legionaries have been moving members around possibly to make them less available for the apostolic visitation to interview. ...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/07/legionary-movement_17.html

Former Legionary Father Thomas Berg said a few days ago : “ need to know from the highest Church authority whether there ever really was a genuine charism inspired by the Holy Spirit at work in...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/07/can-legionaries-be-undone.html

Before concluding the now underway apostolic visitation of the Legionaries of Christ into the unedifying private life of founder Rev. Marcial Maciel and its effects on his institute, the Vatican ...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-church-approval-of-religious-order.html

The Vatican’s second decision to conduct an official investigation, a so-called apostolic visitation, of the Catholic religious congregation the Legionaries of Christ was made public on March 3...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/06/first-apostolic-visitation-of_23.html

(Drawn from Fernando M. González Los Legionarios de Cristo; testimonios y documentos inéditos (Mexico City: Tusquets Editores 2006)) 24 August 1954 Legionary Brother Federico Domínguez, prefe...

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I have been collating web gleanings and have posted sketches of the four reported Legionary visitators: Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. , Alessandria Bishop Giuseppe Versaldi , Tepi...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/06/visitation-so-far-four-legionary.html

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. (Order of Friars Minor Capuchin) Archbishop of Denver Archbishop Chaput is 64, born September 26, 1944 in Concordia, Kansas. Through his mother, a memb...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/06/archbishop-charles-j-chaput-ofm-cap.html

Reduced by circumstance to pseudonymous blogging and burdened with the consequent self-loathing for my cowardice, I was as buoyed as terrified by yesterday’s discussion in the New York Times’...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/06/pseudonymous-blogger-outed.html

Rev. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J. (Society of Jesus) Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University Rev. Ghirlanda is 66, born July 5, 1942 in Rome. 1966 doctorate in Jurisprudence from La Sapienz...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/06/rev-gianfranco-ghirlanda-s-j.html

Thanks to the eminent Paul Lennon for contributing to the Legionary timeline some early Irish Legionary history from 1961 to 1971, drawn from his personal experience and his 2008 memoir "Our Fath...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/06/irish-timeline-contributions.html

Bishop Giuseppe Versaldi Bishop of Alessandria Alessandria is a city in the Italian area of Piedmont, southeast of Turin, southwest of Milan, a suffragan diocese of Vercelli, where the famous ...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/05/bishop-giuseppe-versaldi.html

I do not know when (or if) the men reported to be the choices for apostolic visitators of the Legion will be named officially. Perhaps they are at work already. But, until then, we may speculate ...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/05/who-are-apostolic-visitators.html

Bishop Ricardo Watty Urquidi, M.Sp.S. (Missionaries of the Holy Spirit) Bishop of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico Tepic is the capital of the Mexican state of Nayarit, in central Mexico on the Pacific ...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/05/bishop-ricardo-watty-urquidi-msps.html

Exlcblogger wants to make sure you know the story from Pete Vere and life-after-RC of the Mission Society of Mandeville in Jamaica and how it was founded from the wreck of the Sons of Mary. A...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/05/mission-society-of-mandeville-as.html

Thanks to those of you who have commented on and added to the Legionary timeline, exlcblogger publicly. Let’s all keep adding. As one of you said, a “timeline is a good way to view MM's life...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/05/timeline-additions.html

A brief story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Friday contained several remarkable statements by Southern Catholic College President Dr. Jeremiah Ashcroft about the school’s emerging new...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/05/president-ashcroft-and-legionaries.html

As we contemplate the Legionaries as liberal arts educators, let’s none of us forget Father Maciel’s infamous statements in the Second General Chapter of the Legion of Christ December 1992. A...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/04/visitation-material-3-fish-tank.html

The March 18, 2009 remarks of Legionary Director of Vocations, Rev. Anthony Bannon, on a teleconference with donors are evidence for Legionary attitudes to money and expansion that put their pote...

http://cassandrajonesing.blogspot.com/2009/04/legionary-expansion-has-always-been.html