Head of Legionaries tells pope members completely adhere to pope

Published: 2006-06-19

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The head of the Legionaries of Christ, Father Alvaro Corcuera Martinez del Rio, met with Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience in the Vatican June 16. The meeting came about a month after the Vatican asked the founder of the Legionaries, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, to not exercise his priestly ministry publicly after investigating accusations that the priest sexually abused minors. Father Corcuera said he told the pope the Legionaries and the associated lay movement Regnum Christi were in "the most complete adherence" to the pope and his ministry.

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