Archbishop Chaput asks for BREVITY in emails and communications

Archbishop of Denver
Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

shepherd@archden.org


His Grace has requested that we all be very brief in our emails and communications; otherwise it will be impossible for him to pull all the information together and have it in Rome by the first deadline.

We suggest a maximum 2-3 pages, preferably one, and better still a paragraph detailing the information/testimony. Use numbers or bullets for brevity and concision. Please be aware that His Grace has already personally received and answered hundreds of emails, and dozens keep pouring in daily. Write private in the subject space.

You may want to post a longer version of your testimony on your preferred blog or webpage.

Don't forget to communicate with your local bishop, chancellor, or vicar for clergy.

Thank you

PS

CRY FROM MY HEART

There is no substitute for good individual and group therapy, IMHO. Personally, my path to Recovery passed through Pastoral Therapy, Psychotherapy, Freely chosen Retreats, Involvement with International Cultic Studies Association, Communication with other former members of Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi, and the support of friends and family. It also helped me to help others.

See a fuller description in my memoir.

Dear Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi Cult Survivor don't try to go it alone.
My "mentor" Fr John Powell says: If you bury a problem alive, it doesn't die; it stays alive. Please have the courage to reach out for help. The sooner the better. Life is too short. Do not expect or wait for the Legion/Regnum to do anything for you.

Seek Spiritual Direction, Pastoral Therapy or Psychotherapy from a trained therapist, with a degree, with a clinical license, and free from LC/RC toxicity. Preferably someone with experience with Cult survivors. The latter will understand.
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Ugly Truths about "Saintly Founder" Maciel....#27 in the series "How to get a Loved one Out..."

The Children of Father Maciel are hitting the blogs for the past few days...
See American Papist today: Not Your Average Catholic!: Claim: Legion founder Maciel had multiple children; other details emerging;

Ugly Truths Come Out-------#26 in the series "How to get a Loved one out of the Legion/Regnum

For some years ugly truths have been coming out about the Legion of Christ & Regnum Christi, many of them in the form of testimonies on the REGAIN page.

Right now, former members of Scientology, a group eerily like the Regnum Christi, are coming out and their revelations are shocking. LINK

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Scientology's ugly truths revealed


Published Monday, August 3, 2009


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Scientology calls itself a religion and claims to offer purpose and meaning to its members. Yet for some who worked in the church's militaristic Sea Organization, Scientology provided something different: physical punishment, humiliation, beatings, sleep deprivation, and long and ruinous separation from loved ones.

The stories of 11 former staffers, reported in a St. Petersburg Times special report Sunday, are told with such detail and emotional heft that the church's official denials of abuse ring hollow.

It takes courage to challenge the Church of Scientology, which has long pursued and attempted to destroy its critics. Yet now 15 former Sea Org members have gone on the record with their stories of abuse during years of working at or near the church's top management. Four of those, whose stories were related in the Times' first special report in June, are the highest ranking officials ever to defect from Scientology.

Some remain proponents of the church's mission, but they say that since Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard died in 1986, current chairman David Miscavige has taken the church in a new and dehumanizing direction. They describe Miscavige as a brilliant yet brutal man who delights in assaulting and subjugating employees.

Fear of Miscavige apparently permeated the church's 500-acre international base in the desert outside Los Angeles. Former Sea Org members reported being subjected to or witnessing Miscavige slapping or pummeling staff members. For punishment, they said Sea Org members working at the base were thrown into a lake, had to jog for hours around a dirt track in the desert heat, were assigned to do manual labor — sometimes for years — or were forced to spend weeks in a guarded tent camp where they had to bathe and use a makeshift latrine in full view of others. Sea Org members who did not meet expectations were forced to confess in front of a jeering crowd of hundreds.

Emerging from the Times reports is a possible answer to the pervasive question of why Sea Org members stay and endure such treatment. Most of those interviewed by the Times became members of Scientology as young children or impressionable teenagers. When they later joined the Sea Org, they signed billion-year contracts, promising to serve the church throughout eternity. The church took a controlling, paternalistic role, becoming the sole source of food, housing and medical care for staffers. Sea Org members were paid only about $75 a week, which left them impoverished. The church kept on file "confessionals" members were required to write in which they admitted shortcomings and freed the church of liability. And if they married another church staffer and later wanted to defect, they faced leaving their spouse behind.

As more people who have escaped the grip of the Church of Scientology come forward to tell their stories, the secrecy that has been a hallmark of the church's internal operations is being stripped away. The truth is that this organization abuses people to advance its quest to become a global force, and even the church's ever-present public relations machine cannot put a pretty face on that.

Recovery Workshops, Denver, October, 2009 --- # 25 in the series "How to..."

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ICSA Conference in Denver , Colorado October 2-3, 2009 - Information on New Discussion Tables

We have set up a schedule for discussion meal tables at our upcoming Denver conference. Meal tables will be led by experts in the field on topics such as recovery issues for ex-members, exit counseling, discussion for families, post-cult spiritual issues, writing your story, and other subjects.

Go here to see the complete schedule.

ICSA has extended the early registration discount deadline for its special two-day conference for ex-members, families, and helping professionals at the Sheraton Lakewood Denver October 2-3, 2009. Register now for this exciting conference.

The Denver conference includes four tracks: ex-members, families, mental health professionals, and miscellaneous.

A special rate is available from the Sheraton Lakewood, and attendees may take the special rate two days before and after the conference in order to append a few days of vacation to the conference. The Sheraton's guaranteed conference rate of $85/night will expire soon, so register now.

Go here to register for the conference - copy and paste this URL into your browser, if the link does not work for you: http://icsahome.com/infoserv_conferences/conference_registration_denver.asp

Go here to reserve your room at the Sheraton - copy and paste this URL into your browser, if the link does not work for you:

http://icsahome.com/infoserv_conferences/conference_lodging_denver.asp

Book sleeping rooms soon, for the Sheraton will only guarantee the conference rate until September 1st.

Thank you for responding, Archbishop Chaput! ... #24 in the series, "How to get a Loved one Out!"

the above picture features handsome present and former Legion members such as Fergus O'Carroll, LC (destination unknow), Keith Keller (happily married with kids in NC), and Anthony Bannon LC, reassigned to ?
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Skeptics warn Investigators about Legion bosses moving members "with dirty hands" out of the public and Vatican eye during "Visitation"
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On behalf of several former Legionaries, Regnum Christies, their family and friends I want to thank His Grace for the incredible dedication of time, energy and pastoral care involved in reading and responding to emails.

Please keep emails brief and follow guidelines re submitting further materials

American Investigator of Legion and Regnum welcomes input from Affected Catholics --#23 in the series How to...

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Please notice this blog's consistency

Several credible sources tell us that Arch Bishop Chaput welcomes SHORT testimonies and info from all those who have been adversely affected by the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi in the USA.

Bishop's email

Please use discretely and avoid abusing His Grace's time and energy.

It will be impossible for the archbishop to review emails if they are not BRIEF and to the point. Think one paragraph or two. If he wants more info he will ask for it.

Mark communications to him as "PRIVATE." Only he will open them

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Vatican Investigation Officially Underway 15 July 2009 --#22 in the Series "How to get a loved Out..."

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The Carmelite Friars were prominent in the first [1956-58] investigation.
The Vatican chose July 15, 2009, Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, as the official start date for this "Visitation" of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi
"Visitation" being Vaticanese for "investigation"
It is open-ended and, to echo Michelangelo's words to Pope Julius II, will end when it ends, i.e., will take as long as needed. It will be secret, or under oath and confidential; I imagine updates or results will be given to the public; secret reports will be filed with the corresponding authorities, hopefully above the head of Mons Franc Rode, head "Prefect" of the Congregation for Religious, who ate out of Fr Maciel's hand and is presently beguiled by baby-faced Superior General, Alvaro Corcuera [who previously had been beguiled by Fr Maciel's holiness]

From St Teresa's Carmelite Parish in Clarendon St, Dublin, on the banks of the murky Liffey praying for Vatican transparency,

Maciel's thorn