Song for Legion Leaders Losing Power

[Following in the footsteps of their "Our Father" they are getting moved, removed...away from Rome, away from the seat of power; they have been asked to leave quickly, just like they dished it out to others for decades; they know who I mean; you do too, reader]




You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
The empty handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
Your empty handed armies, are all going home
Your lover who just walked out the door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Strike another match, go start a new
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.


Listen to it

Legion/Regnum Not Hunky Dory in Mexico

+ Friends, last night there was an exchange on the "Life After RC" blog that was interesting.

The mother of a Consecrated Female (3gf) expressed her frustration that her daughter was still deeply entrenched, and might be moved to Mexico where (she believed) everyone was still very absorbed in the Movement.

Someone responded:

Excuse me, but in Mexico not all people believe MM is innocent... Schools are losing students by hundreds. Just one in Monterrey lost 80 families. Not all RC members are going anymore to their activities... nor are they raising money for LC/RC. It's a different scenario than the US. Territorial Directors are mute since all this has happened, no accountability. Everybody is very disappointed with their constant silence. They continue working as if nothing have happened and live in denial. Trying to accomplish their objectives 'efficiently' with less men and women committed to the cause. However, our media is louder than the US's. Take for example Nelly Ramirez's, Alejandro Espinosa's and Fernando Gonzalez's, Carmen Aristegui's books.... And the continuous battle Alberto Athie and José Barba are giving. Or the constant articles in almost all of our newspapers... Your worst fears if your daughter was sent to Mexico should be, besides the constant insecurity that we live in because the war against drug dealers, is the director to whom she may be assigned. Some are true examples of how to break people. Careful with Paula Errazuri, Marisa Rodríguez, Marian Moreno... among others. Or in Venezuela with Juani Lozano, and even Chile with Aracely Delgado. I will also pray for your daughter.

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Full exchange:

OK, all this talk about moving the LC/RC operation to Mexico is feeding my worst fears as the mother of an American 3gf. I can so see that scenario happening and it makes me sick in the pit of my stomach. If my daughter goes to Mexico, I'm pretty sure we will never be able to get her back home. She is drunk on Kool Aid now and if she is in that intense devotional Mexican environment, where people still think MM is an innocent, she just may end up delusional forever.
Somebody feed me a bone here and tell me that VdP will not co-mingle the cultures; at least not any more than they already are. Really, there is so much at stake here and I have absolutely no confidence in the process.
BTW, she has two new e-mail addresses. One for now and another one for October. I think that is a solid clue that the directives for 3gf will come down in October.
Please continue the prayers. I am so greatful for them. That is the one thing that helps me hold on to faith in these awful times; knowing there are good people praying for her helps me a great deal. PAX

Posted by: Just Saying | August 09, 2011 at 10:13 PM

Just Saying... I haven't been praying for your daughter but I will now. Your message really moved me. She will be prayed for in my daily Divine Mercy Chaplet.

Posted by: Polish Pilgrim | August 09, 2011 at 11:42 PM

Just Saying...
Excuse me, but in Mexico not all people believe MM is innocent... Schools are losing students by hundreds. Just one in Monterrey lost 80 families.
Not all RC members are going anymore to their activities... nor are they raising money for LC/RC.

It's a different scenario than the US. Territorial Directors are in mute since all this has happened, no accountability.
Everybody is very disappointed with their constant silence.
They continue working as if nothing have happened and live in denial. Trying to accomplish their objectives 'efficiently' with less men and women committed to the cause.

However, our media is louder than the US's. Take for example Nelly Ramirez's, Alejandro Espinosa's and Fernando Gonzalez's, Carmen Aristegui's books....
And the continuous battle Alberto Athie and José Barba are giving.
Or the constant articles in almost all of our newspapers...

Your worst fears if your daughter was sent to Mexico should be, besides the constant insecurity that we live in because the war against drug dealers, is the director to whom she may be assigned. Some are true examples of how to break people. Careful with Paula Errazuri, Marisa Rodríguez, Marian Moreno... among others. Or in Venezuela with Juani Lozano, and even Chile with Aracely Delgado.

I will also pray for your daughter.

Posted by: Lala | August 10, 2011 at 02:59 AM

http://www.life-after-rc.com/2011/08/where-we-are-now.html 

A Cult Conference Presentation Regarding the Legionaries of Christ Religious Order

When Faith is Corrupted Into a Coercive Ideology - The Driving Forces At Work In a Religious Community With Cultic Behaviors


http://www.regainnetwork.org/article.php?a=47246177

Garza, Legion Vicar General, Shafted by Vatican

Nice Catholic News Agency tells us nicely that Fr. Garza - who is anything but nice- apparently became a liability, and  is now shafted. You can read all the holy blarney below to learn how nicely that was done in the voice of nice Fr. Alvaro Corcuera -who should be next!- as the Legion continues to massage the information to make it as palatable as possible to its fawning multitudes.

It is encouraging to learn that De Paolis has the necessary testicular fortitude to do this.

It also seems that De Paolis has one velvet glove and another of steel. He had just complained about the dissidents who were hindering his reform and then out of the blue puts Garza  -a person who had seemed to be so on board with the Reforms - to the sword
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“America and Canada are countries that I have always admired and I am humbled to serve as territorial director of the united territory,” said Fr. Garza in a statement issued to media July 15.

Only last month Fr. Garza told CNA that he had no intention of stepping down from his post as vicar general – essentially second-in-command of the Legion. Instead, he hinted that there may be a general turnover of the organization’s leadership after their next General Chapter meeting.

Today’s news comes as the Vatican is reviewing both the purpose and constitution of the Legion. That process is being headed up by Italian cleric, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis.

The cardinal was appointed as ‘Papal Delegate’ last year after a Vatican investigation condemned the late founder of the congregation, Fr. Marcial Maciel, as a being guilty of “serious and objectively immoral behavior” as well as “real crimes.”

Fr. Maciel had sexually abused seminarians over many years and fathered several children with different women. He died in 2008, aged 87. The Vatican report summed up his life as “devoid of scruples and of genuine religious feeling.”

“We are working together to face the challenges for our communities and our apostolates around the world, and with particular intensity in the United States and Canada,” said Fr. Alvaro Corcuera, the general director of the Legion.

“We must lay more solid foundations on which to build and re-launch our service to the Church in those countries.”

And so the Legion’s activities in North America that were previously split into two territories – New York and Atlanta – will now merge into one with Fr. Garza at the helm.

“In the consultation, various candidates were considered for the new position. Although both of the current territorial directors have done an extraordinary job, there was broad consensus in favor of Fr. Luis Garza,” said Fr. Corcuera.

Fr. Garza is originally from Monterrey in Mexico. He joined the Legion of Christ in 1978 and was ordained a priest in 1985. He’s been vicar general of the Legion since 1992. His critics have suggested he must have been aware of Fr. Maciel’s misdeeds, a charge Fr. Garza has always denied.

He will take up his new post on August 1.>
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The blogger has boldened typical Legion blarney, misinformation, and downright lies from Corcuera. He tells the barefaced lies with such a sweet and innocent look on his face. But for people who love appearances of holiness, that should do the trick.

When was any decision been taken democratically or consensually in the Legion of Christ or when has any thoughtful screening of candidates ever take place! The newly elected is imposed enceremoniously on the present territorial directors in the usual dictatorial way.

Could it be that De Paolis is bowing to pressures from some Legionaries inside to get rid of Garza who has been so disliked for so long?

Leger and Lennon deliver papers at Cultic Studies Conference in Barcelona, Spain, July 8, 2011

Today, as part of series of studies around the Issue, "Do Cultic Groups Exist Inside the Catholic Church", Paul Lennon presented an update on the Vatican Intervention of the Legion of Christ, and Xavier Leger, a Parisian former Legionary, presented When Guilt and Ideology prevail in a Catholic Group.
Both presentations were well received by an audience of priests, religious, sociologists, psychologists, concerned parents and friends of people in High Demand Groups.

Articles will either by published by the International Cultic Studies Association or by REGAIN

Scion of Spanish Aristocracy leaves Legion of Christ ranks

Charismatic preacher, recruiter, founder, and fundraiser Fr. Juan Pedro Oriol


Juan Pedre Oriol, that is Father...has just left the Legion -after 31 years. He the Legion a headache by critiquing it while still in and while going out the door.
See info on life.after.rc and on http://www.regainnetwork.org/ which will soon carry a full translation of Fr. Juan Pedro's swan song. He has joined the diocese of Guadalajara, Mexico, where he had been working as a Legionary.
Padre Oriol's testimony, full of love and nostalgia for the Legion, for his companions, and respectful towards the current General Director, Fr. Alvaro Corcuera, must make other Catholics reflect and rethink their adhesion to the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christ which are presently being probed, reformed and propped up [?] by Apostolic Delegate, Cardinal De Paolis.
Padre Oriol's testimony is riveting and heartrending

Legionaries of Christ spy on this page!

                                                   The author, previously sued by the Legion


Done some checking with a computer whiz and I find that certain Legionaries secretly monitor this page and report to their superior and thence to lawyers to see if they can sue the blogger.

All in the name of the Christ of the Legion and while supposedly being under Vatican supervision!

Cardinal De Paolis please wake up!