Regnum Christi

[AaronK88]

Anyone here a member of this group? I have been trying to find out more about them. I have a friend at my school who is a member, and she has a very powerful prayer life, and the group seems very orthodox, which I personally prefer. I've heard some negative things, supposedly all untrue about the founder.

 

[Virgil the Roman]

From what my friends tell me: the negative allegations are from those who oppose them just because of their orthodoxy: for they are very orthodox.

 

[AaronK88]

Honestly I think being orthodox in your ways is a good thing though, right?

 

[D'Ann]

As long as it's not in a rad trad or schism type of way, otherwise, being Traditional and/or Orthodox is not a bad thing imho.

 

[Fish and Bread]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_/ai_n27927712

 

[AaronK88]

That is only one archbishop. As far as I am concerned, if the Pope allows them to exist, then there isn't a problem. I think a lot of these bishops that do have issues with them, they are not a big fan of the orthodox approach they take. Too many liberal Catholics in the Church who want to make change, and these guys want to stick to the traditional ways.

 

[Fish and Bread]

That is only one archbishop. As far as I am concerned, if the Pope allows them to exist, then there isn't a problem. I think a lot of these bishops that do have issues with them, they are not a big fan of the orthodox approach they take. Too many liberal Catholics in the Church who want to make change, and these guys want to stick to the traditional ways.

In addition to the Archbishop of Baltimore's restrictions, the group has been banned in the Archdiocese of Minnesota and the Diocese of Columbus by the ordinaries in each of those locations:

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10128/minnesota-archbishop-bars-legionaries-from-his-archdiocese

I want to be clear that I am in no way taking sides in this. I am just sharing information I've come across so that folks have more background, since someone inquired as to what people knew, seeking to learn more. I personally don't know enough about the group to have a strong opinion.

 

[Rhamiel]

I know nothing about the group, but I live in Columbus Ohio and I have to say the Bishop is not super liberal, as a matter of fact we can be kinda conservative in some ways

 

[Maggie893]

I have friends who are involved. The parents are members. The kids took part in a lot of the retreats and things when they were young. Overall it's a good group from what I can tell. Traditional Catholics. The one thing that most of the family would agree upon as a potential negative is that the school and the retreat programs can be a bit militaristic. But for some people that's not a bad thing.

Transparency has been an issue for them as well as diocesan cooperation with their priests. Their priests are open to visiting homes and providing Mass when local churches are available with a reasonable Mass schedule. In most dioceses, any visiting priest to the area who wishes to assist at a Mass is to notify the local parish and assist at a scheduled public Mass. Only if there are no local parishes with Masses on a given day are they allowed to say Mass otherwise and even then they should be letting the Bishop know in advance. This appears to some diocese to be a disrespectful behavior and they have called them on it, not always with success.

The unwillingness to subordinate to the local diocesan authority is a little disconcerting to me. I actually do understand it to some degree because we have a lot of liberal parish communities that have styles of worship that would be controversial to most traditional priests. I don't know that I agree with not speaking to the Bishop though because while we have those parishes in our diocese, we also have some traditional parishes and our bishop is awesome.

Again, my friends are good people and they like it overall. They wanted a deeper walk and found it through Regnum Christi.

Take it for what it's worth.