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 ...

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 ...

Father Michael Shannon, a priest of the Legionaries of Christ, died March 18. He was 70 years old and had been serving as a ...

Mexican priest Father Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez has been elected the new director general of the Legionaries of Christ for the 2026–2032 term to “continue the path of renewal” of the congregation ...

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 ...

Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, right, is pictured celebrating Mass in this undated file photo. (CNS) MEXICO CITY-- The general secretary of the Legionaries of Christ asked for forgiveness from the ...

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 ...

As the Legionaries of Christ started their extraordinary general chapter, the cardinal overseeing the troubled congregation said scandal had taken a toll on its finances, but that members had made ...

The Legionaries of Christ on Jan. 20 opened its 2020 Ordinary General Chapter in Rome, which convenes every six years with the duty to elect the general government for the order and to address the ...

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 ...