Oh, dear. Practice what you preach!

From a meditation by Fr. R.E., LC:

2. Jesus Preaches with More Than Words. Our Lord Jesus went about doing only good: healing the sick, comforting the lonely, forgiving sinners, and preaching the Gospel.

Very nice, but Legionaries are content with the last two on the list. They just get other people to do the first two for them. They call that apostolic elitisim efficiency.



Image source.

Indeed, who is Catholic?

Exlcblogger does not approve of Catholics who point fingers at others to say that these others are less than Catholic. This usually amounts to the finger-pointers just saying that they themselves are MORE Catholic.

Read an interesting take here which mentions the Legion of Christ and their University of Sacramento.

Review of "Our Father Who Art in Bed"

On Fr. Brian Van Hove's blog.

Exlcblogger hears that a new edition of the book will be titled: Our Father Maciel Who Art in Bed.

Sins of the Past

A recent on-line photo essay published by Newsweek includes Fr. Maciel among a pantheon of 12 fallen preachers. He comes up at number 10. So much for finger-pointing at the Protestants.

They are gonna have a hard time of it.

Catholic order aims to stem clergy shortage
by Juanita Westaby The Grand Rapids Press
Saturday January 03, 2009, 5:40 AM

Nice wish, but ordaining only 3 or 4 Americans a year is no grand solution.

You can parse through some of this neoclergyman's story here:

He said he's aware of criticism that the Legionaries' target wealthier families and communities."Part of that is true," he said. "Why? Because our order is dependent on fundraising, and part of our methodology is to reach out to leaders in different fields of work."The Legionaries have been influential, especially among the laity of Regnum Christi, in shaping conservative orthodox thought. Its founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, died in February after being censured and ordered to a life of "prayer and penitence" following an investigation of sexual abuse allegations in 2006. DuMont said he wishes the Legionaries' hallmark charity could be applied to Maciel. "It's sad to see he has been so calumniated," he said. "We have to be careful as Catholics not to say something that we do not know is true."
E-mail the author of this story: localnews@grpress.com

Photo from AP Photo by Ed Andrieski

Hmmmmm...

From another a blogger's question (Get Your Ex Back):

Was this a good reason to break up with my girlfriend? I broke up with my girlfriend because she wasn’t able to debate about the “Philosphy of Pornography”. I want to date a girl who is “Philosophical” and my girlfriend just doesn’t have enough education in philosophy. My girlfriend has a REAL DEGREE from the University of Toronto (a major University) while I have a DEGREE in Philosophy from the Legionaries of Christ which is a questionable cult that offers questionable education.

Extremists?

In answer to a blogger question:

Ryan said,
January 1, 2009 @ 4:19
am
You can find extremist and reasonable people in any religion or belief Extremist is not an adjective related to the religion "per se" nor a to a specific religion (excluding may be some extreme sects). It is more often related to single believers or groups of believers who are integrists and believe that not only they represent the hypothetical "only truth" but also that they need to impose it to others or tho destroy them. The extremist will never have doubts nor will accept the existence of different beliefs..In this you have typical examples in Christian history and many contemporary ones (just read some "Christian" messages in this thread of YA) Evangelical russians in Sacramento like the one who killed a man because he was gay, are Christian extremists. Watchman on the Wall, KKK, Lambs of Christ, Christian Patriots, Arian Nations are Christian extremist at least, probably Christian terrorists. Christian Identity, Pineas Priests, CSA of the Lord, are for sure extremists.Pastor Fischer of Jesus camps, the British "Evangelical Alliance", the Italian and South American Legion of Christ, Pat Robertson, Christian Broadcasting Network, The American Center of Law and Justice are other examples. Hinduism extremism has reinforced in the last few years, up to reach almost a majority in Indian Parliament. Hindu extremist movements are united in the so called Sangh Parivar. Islamic extremism, like Christian extremism, may vary from violent forms and terrorism (Islamic Jihad, Al Qaida and many others) to non violent mysticism (Sufi, M'zhab). You forgot many other main religions (there are extremists in anyone of them)