Legionaries a Cult? (long)
ChKelly285
Novices accuse Catholic order of intimidation, pressure
by Gerald Renner
Courant Religion Writer
reprinted from The Hartford Courant, June 10, 1996
The Legionaries of Christ, a militaristically styled order of Roman
Catholic priests based in Connecticut, calls recruiting candidates for the
priesthood "capturing vocations".
The language is more than figurative, say several men who accepted
invitations last year to join the Legionaries' novice training program.
They say that superiors of the tightly controlled, boot camp-like training
program would not release them when they decided that priesthood in the
Legion was not for them.
They say that the Legionaries tried to manipulate and intimidate them
psychologically, refused to return their civilian clothes and subjected
them to such intense pressure to stay that they felt they had no choice
but to plan escapes and flee.
The Legionaries who have their U.S. headquearters in Orange, refused to
respond to inquiries from The Courant, regarding the former novices'
allegations. The order declines most requests for interviews, even from
Catholic periodicals.
Requests for an interview and questions in writing were directed last
month to the order's national director, the Rev. Anthony Bannon, through
his secretary, Brother John Curran. Curran accused The Courant of stirring
up, "scandal" and said he did not expect Bannon to respond.
The allegations, if true, violate basic precepts of priestly formation in
the Catholic Church, canon lawyers and other church sources say.
"The whole canonical process recognizes the primacy of conscience and free
will. That last thing the church wants is for someone to stay because of
psychological pressure," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest with
the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington D.C. He has written
extensively on church governance.
The men making the allegations spent last summer at the order's seminary
in Cheshire in a program to "test their vocations." In September they were
invited to become novices.
At this point everything is voluntary with no promises made or vows taken,
in accord with general church practice. Becoming a novice is a first step
in a process that might take as long as 13 years in the Legionaries to be
ordained a priest. The Legionaries call priests in training "brothers"
from the moment they enter the novitiate, which lasts two years.
The critics portrayed a day-and-night difference between the summer
candidacy program, which reinvigorated their commitment to the faith, and
their introduction to the novitiate, which they said they found so
demeaning and manipulative they decided to leave. Each was a commited
Catholic from a pious home of traditional devotion.
They said the program was intensive. Every second of their time was
scheduled from the moment they were roused at 4:30 a.m. until bedtime,
usually between 10 and 11 p.m. They had classes in religion, Latin, Greek
and Spanish. They also said they had to memorize 368 verses of rules from
a red hardcover book that governed everything they did, from how to eat
(never eat an apple whole, pare it on a plate) to how to part their hair
(on the left).
They said they needed permission to do everything, even to take an
aspirin. They were not to ask questions, they said, but to do as they were
told and they were never to speak ciritically about the Legion. They said
their letters home were scrutinized before they were mailed and only
positive things could be written . They said they had to write letters to
seminarians they did not even know "on other fronts" - that is,
Legionaries in other countries - and tell them how much they like the
Legionaries' life.
They said they had no access to a telepone except through a monitored
switchboard.
Some of the novices thrived on the strict discipline, the novices
recounted. The ones who adapted best were the young men who had been with
the Legionaries since they were as young as 12 years old, they said.
About 200 young men are reportedly in training at the seminary in
Cheshire. Some are finishing high school and others are in the novitiate,
doing preparatory studies for the priesthood before further schooling in
Spain and Italy.
Some of the students in Cheshire came from the Immaculate Conception
Apostolic School in Center Harbor, N.H., a boarding school for students in
the seventh to ninth grades run by the Legionaries.
Two Mexican boys, 15 and 16 years old, are in the novitiate program, the
former novices say. They point out that is contrary to canon law, which
says that "one who had not yet completed the seventeenth year of age" may
not be admitted into a novitiate.
Two former novices told The Courant how they separately engineered
"escapes" after they had been sent from Cheshire to a secluded estate in
Westchester County, New York.
The 100-acre estate sits on a hill behind a medieval-style watch tower in
a heavily wooded section of New Castle, near Mt. Kisco. A mansion,
extended with dormitory wings on either side, sits at the end of a winding
half-mile-long private road. Town records show the Legionaries purchased
the property in 1994 for $3.1 million from the Unification Church of the
Rev. Sun Myung Moon, commonly known as the Moonies.
The former novices allege that they were subjected to the same kind of
mind-numbing, sleep-depriving tactics that the Moonies had been accused of
using on recruits in 1960s and '70s.
Hugh McCaffery, 30, of Pensacola, Fla., said he kept saying he wanted to
leave "but they laughed it off."
"They'd say, 'OK, you're complaining, you're venting, but you'll get over
it.'"
When he insisted he wanted to leave, "They told me to write down on paper
what you don't like and we will discuss it. I gave them a page and a half
and said it was intolerable," McCaffery said in a telephone interview from
his home.
Still the order resisted releasing him, McCaffery said, " They are totally
trained to tell you this is the fundamenal option in life, and if you
don't choose it you will go to hell."
He said the idea to flee crystallized on afternoon when a priest told the
novices, "'You guys think we are brainwashing you. You think we are
stealing your personalities away.' I said to myself that's exactly what
you are doing."
At the end of November during an outdoor retreat, he said, he shed his
cassock, folded it carefully on the ground, and fled.
"As soon as I got to the woods I started running like a deer. My
sunglasses fell out. They cost me $80 but I didn't stop to pick them up, "
he said.
He said he ran 3 miles into Mt. Kisco. He had no money, he said, but
rented a car with a credit card he had in his wallet and drove straight
home to Pensacola, surprising his parents.
Several weeks before McCaffery fled, two other men made an elaborately
planned getaway, according to an account one of them gave The Courant. He
related how the fathers repeatedly brushed aside his request to be
released.
Finally, he said, he and his companion broke into the mansion's attic to
retrieve their suitcases. They hid them under their beds and watched for
an opportunity to retrieve them unobserved. That came one day when the
students were at athletics. They hid their bags in bushe and jogged into
Mt. Kisco.
He telephoned a friend. "I told him I just escaped from the seminary and I
have a friend with me. Can you pick us up? He said, 'no problem.'"
This man, in his 30s, at first talked freely and at length in a telephone
call and a personal meeting but was ambivalent about being identified in a
news story. He finally decided he did not want to be named because he
thought it might jeopardize his chances to get into another seminary.
Also, he said, he talked to his "spiritual advisor" and "a couple of
priests I think a lot of and they personally feel to go public would do
more damage to the Catholic Church at this time."
Another former novice, who was sent from Cheshire to Monterrey, Mexico,
said it took the order weeks after he said he wanted to quit to return him
to the United States. The order held his money, passport and clothes so he
couldn't leave on his own, he said.
He too, asked for anonymity.
"I fear retaliation if my full name is printed in your story because the
Legion is a powerful, wealthy and secretive organization," he wrote in a
letter to The Courant. He is also seeking admission to another seminary.
I became disillusioned and left the Legion over their brainwashing, which
turns people into robot-like personalities, their unrealistic
expectations, their pressure on members to obey rules and accomplish
tasks, their ridicule, their secrecy, their manipulating and their
pressure on members to raise money for the organization."
The novices are expected to talk relatives into becoming part of what the
order calls Regnum Christi, meaning the Kingdom of God, a lay adjunct to
the Legionaries. Members are asked to make substantial contributions,
McCaffery and the others said.
The order also runs a sophisticated direct-mail fund-raising campaign out
of its U.S. headquarters in Orange and a satellite operation in Hamden.
"Lottery sweepstakes" offering cash prizes of up to $5,000 for a $5
donation for a book of 10 tickets accompanying moving pleas for money to
train seminarians.
The order, founded in Mexico in 1941, reports it has 350 priests and 2,000
seminarians in 16 countries, double the number of a decade ago.
Forty-three of the priests are in the United States. The order's
Mexican-born founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, 76, directs the Legionaries
from headquarters in Rome.
The Legionaries are esteemed in Rome. Pope John Paul II presided at the
ordination of 60 new priests of the order in 1991 and praised Maciel for
loyalty to the papacy. Maciel accompanied the pope on two of his trips to
the United States.
Mike Schillace
Let us remember that stories of very respectable groups and people are put
out very often by the media. They are many times false. Many times the
media wants to discredit anything or anyone that is truly Catholic and
faithful to Rome. Stories are often exagerated upon and the worst details
are fabricated to "spice up" the story. The media is always trying to turn
people against the truth, which is Christ and in His Church. The
Legionaries of Christ should be praised for the wonderful work it does in
reaching out to God's people all over the world. It sticks to the truth
and helps people to see the truth. I don't know how much of that story is
true but I am quite sure that it has been exagerated. We don't know each
and every policy of this order, nor do we know all of the circumstances of
these two men. I would hope that no one jumps to conclusions about this.
That story hasn't made me respect the Legionaries of Christ any less and
certainly hasn't made me think any less of the Catholic Church. I respect
the Church more every day and no media with its ploys to ruin my respect to
the truth is ever going to succeed! May God help us!
Mike Schillace
Mik...@baldcom.net
Mark William Mayville
In <01bb8700$6038b720$652e...@MikeyS.baldcom.net> "Mike Schillace"
Dear Mike,
I've met a priest from the Legionaries of Christ only once, but I
will tell you this much. I had never seen a priest say Mass with so
much piety and devotion before him nor have I seen one since. This
priest took his job very, very seriously. It was as if I was looking at
Christ Himself, and I will never forget this guy, he made a deep
impression on me. I think if even half the priests out there were like
him, we would have many true conversions. I have nothing negative to
say about the Legionaries of Christ, zero, zilch, nada.
God Bless,
Mark
TimothyCTX
In article <4ugdh9$o...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, chkel...@aol.com
(ChKelly285) writes:
>
>Novices accuse Catholic order of intimidation, pressure
>by Gerald Renner
>Courant Religion Writer
>reprinted from The Hartford Courant, June 10, 1996
It sounds to me that this is just a gossipy, tabloid style attack on a
faithful seminary devoted to training priests who are faithful to Catholic
teaching and loyal to the magisterium. (Not surprising that a secular
newspaper would report something like this without any substance to back
it up).
A cult? Gimme a break. They made the same accustions against the Jesuits
during and after the reformation (some in England were even executed for
being "spies"). They even called the Superior of the Jesuits the "Black
Pope."
My opinion is that some factions in the Catholic church (i.e. the baby
boomer generation educated in the '60s) in the U.S.A. are scared to death
that the Legionaries of Christ are training large numbers of loyal,
faithful priests who won't accept "NewChurch" Modernism and all the other
forms of pop-heresy eroding the faith of millions in this country. I bet
you the next thing we hear is dissident ex-priests, liberals a la Greeley,
McBrien; Women's ordination zealots and all the other quasi-Catholic
counter culture spouting their propaganda about the Legionaries of Christ
"brainwashing" seminarians in a "boot-camp" environment.
As for me, I think I will send the Legionaries an additional contribution
this month - just to upset their adversaries!
Robert F Underhill
ChKelly285 (chkel...@aol.com) wrote:
: Novices accuse Catholic order of intimidation, pressure
: by Gerald Renner
: Courant Religion Writer
: reprinted from The Hartford Courant, June 10, 1996
It had been my intention the other day to inquire of anyone had any
information about the Legionaries of Christ and/or Regnum Christi - but
then I found this posting.
Ms/Mr Kelly, can you tell us who Gerald Renner is or what the Hartford
Courant is? Are they Catholic? Do they have an axe to grind? or ehat
Several months ago, I was at the Rectory when a priests and some
semenarians of the Legionaries rang the bell asking about seeing the
Cathedral. I let them in, then later went over and took them on a tour.
Then the other day, I found three priests and about 25 teens trying the
doors. So I took them on a tour. The teens were from the Regnum Christi
and had been going door-to-door evangelizing. They were from the U.S.,
Canada and Europe.
These were dynamic and devout young men - full of reverence and awe for
the things of God, and eager to know all they could about the art and
architecture employed to enhance the liturgy and private prayer of the
people - and particularly respectful of relics of the saints and of the
history of the Church.
Regimentation is not a word that came to mind. The boys were extremely
individual - each with devotions to, or interest in, different saints.
Even in their deportment they acted differently - in regards to
genuflecting, crossing themselves, using holy water, bowing, etc.
I was moved by them - and wished I could have my Confirmation students
meet them.
So I turned on the computor intending to send a message asking how I
could contact them and see if (all I knew was that they have a "house" in
Connecticut) they were available as speakers to come the Boston or as
hosts for a field trip, etc.
After I came across this exchange here, I thought maybe I should check
things out, but find that noone here really seems to know much about them,
Aside from what is quoted below, does anyone have more info about them?
: The order, founded in Mexico in 1941, reports it has 350 priests and 2,000
: seminarians in 16 countries, double the number of a decade ago.
: Forty-three of the priests are in the United States. The order's
: Mexican-born founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, 76, directs the Legionaries
: from headquarters in Rome.
: The Legionaries are esteemed in Rome. Pope John Paul II presided at the
: ordination of 60 new priests of the order in 1991 and praised Maciel for
: loyalty to the papacy. Maciel accompanied the pope on two of his trips to
: the United States.
Thanks,
Bob Of Boston
--
Ely
3 years ago my mother-in-law was dying from lung cancer. (God bless her
soul.) The Legionaires visited her. (They were passing through
Virginia. She had been a regular small contributer to just about every
order that solicited by direct mail). Next thing I knew my 13 year-old
son was getting mail inviting him to their summer camp. I was a little
miffed at the breach of protocol (I would be happy to see him become a
priest but I thought they should talk to me before they started writing
him.) I had forgotten about the whole thing.
I did a SavvySearch and found the following:
The home page for the legionairies is at: http://legion.dcc.anahuac.mx/
The home page for the Hartford Courant is at:
http://www.courant.com/page1.htm
Gerald Renner has published articles on a computer cult - see
http://www.ex-cult.org/Groups/Rama/rama-report.html and on another cult
- see
http://www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/conncult.txt
I'm usually skeptical of newpaper writers, even though I read the news
every day. I can also accept the fact that religious organizations do
sometimes get overzealous.
Suggest we just watch the story for a while.
Herb
"I am not fit to unvelcro his sandel strap", - I hate some of these
modern translations.
TimothyCTX
I found a nice bio on the LCs if anybody is interested...
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LEGIONAIRES OF CHRIST
The Legion of Christ is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests. Founded
in 1941, today there are over 350 Legionary priests and more than 2,300
members active in 17 countries.
THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE LEGION OF CHRIST
An entire Christ-centered spirituality is summarized in the name
"Legionaries of Christ". To every Legionary, Jesus Christ is the standard,
center, and model of his entire religious, priestly and apostolic life.
The Legionaries of Christ seek to know and experience Jesus Christ
intimately, above all in the Gospel, in the Eucharist, and on the Cross.
The fruit of this experience is a real, personal, manly, and passionate
love for Christ, which culminates in the imitation of Him as their only
model of holiness. With a tender, filial love they venerate and love Mary,
Mother of the Church and Mother of their vocation. They consecrate their
religious life, their priesthood, and their apostolate to her. They
venerate her in a very special way by trying to imitate her virtues, above
all, her faith, hope, and love, her obedience, humility, and her
cooperation in Christ's redemptive plan.
The goal of every Legionary: a passionate love of the Church, which
continues Christ's mission and is the beginning of His Kingdom on earth. A
real, objective love for the Church, just as she is and just as Christ has
wanted her to be. A love that meditates on her in faith, embraces her in
obedience, extends her through the apostolate, and makes her holy in their
lives. To love the Church by walking in step with her, neither ahead nor
behind.
This love for the Church shows itself in their ardent loyalty to the Vicar
of Christ. The Legionaries wish to defend the charism of the Holy Father's
primacy and magisterium through the study and spreading of his teachings.
In a spirit of faith they revere the bishops in communion with the Roman
Pontiff as successors of the Apostles and witnesses to divine and Catholic
truth. Finally, they offer selfless service to the local Churches, in
accord with their specific charism.
Preaching and extending Christ's Kingdom constitutes the ideal which
inspires, motives, directs and shapes the apostolic goals of the Legion of
Christ. To make Jesus Christ reign in the hearts of people and of
societies; to transform minds and souls according to the ideal of the New
Man in Christ; to create the civilization of love and justice: this is the
mission which gives meaning to the name "Legionaries of Christ".
The charity preached and commanded by Christ in the Gospel is the heart of
the entire spirituality of the Legionaries. Because they see Jesus Christ
present in every person, they commit themselves to serve their brothers
and sisters without distinctions of language, race, sex, culture, or
social condition by making the gift of redemption reach each one. They
strive to speak well of others and to live joyfully as a family in union
and communion. As brothers, each bears the other's burdens, and together
they form a single body.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LEGION OF CHRIST
The Legion of Christ was founded in Mexico City on 3 January 1941 by
Marcial Maciel then a twenty-year-old theology student studying for the
priesthood and thirteen high school seminarians.
The original inspiration for the foundation of this new religious
Congregation dates from 1936, when on the Feast of the Sacred Heart the
youthful Marcial first perceived God's call for him to form a group of
priests whose members would dedicate themselves enthusiastically and
generously to the task of spreading of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
Since that time the road has been long and arduous. After his ordination
in 1944, Father Maciel expanded the growing community by opening houses in
Mexico, Spain (1946), Rome (1950), Ireland (1961) and in 1965, the United
States.
1965 also marks the year in which Pope Paul VI granted the Legion the
Decretum Laudis, which established the new foundation as a congregation of
Pontifical Rite.
The Legion continues to expand. Since 1965 Legionary priests have
established themselves in Australia, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil, France,
Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Columbia, Argentina, Poland, and
England.
In 1983 Pope John Paul II definitively approved the Legion's
Constitutions.
On January 3, 1991, the 50th Anniversary of the foundation, His Holiness
Pope John Paul II ordained 60 Legionaries to the priesthood. And on
November 25, 1994, the eve of 50th Anniversary of Father Maciel's priestly
ordination, 57 Legionaries were ordained in Mexico City.
LEGIONARY VOCATIONS
Every year young men out of high school or of college age are accepted
into the novitiate. Youth, generosity, enthusiasm, and a desire to serve
those in greatest moral, spiritual and material need are some of the
common qualities shared by men entering the Candidacy program each summer.
The Legion of Christ also directs seven vocational centers to provide an
adequate environment for boys (ages 11-17) who are thinking of the
priesthood.
To date thirty-five nationalities from five continents are represented in
the Legion. The median age of Legionaries is twenty-eight. Frequent
retreats are held at our novitiate centers for young men who wish to know
more about a vocation in the Legion of Christ. For further information,
contact a Legionary of Christ in your area. For Legionaries of Christ
outside the U.S. and Canada, view LEGIONARIES OF CHRIST ABROAD.
UNITED STATES CANADA Fr. Anthony Bannon, L.C. Fr. James Swanson, L.C. 475
Oak Avenue R.R. 1 Cheshire, CT 06410 Cornwall, Ontario Tel: 203 271 0805
K6H 5R5 Canada Tel: 616 931 1858
LEGIONARY FORMATION
The Legionaries of Christ prepare themselves purposefully and thoroughly
to face the difficult challenges of contemporary society. The Legion
offers each of her members a careful and meticulous formation, sparing
neither time, sacrifice, nor resources. This formation looks to transform
each man according to the measure of Christ, and to develop his potential
in every facet of his person: individual and social, human and spiritual,
intellectual and apostolic.
Four pedagogical principles serve as the foundation for the formation of
the Legionaries: A personalized formation, adapted to each one's
singularity, aptitudes, character traits, culture and stage of personal
development; a formation in which the subject is himself responsible for
carrying out his own preparation, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
and the constant, close support of his directors; a formation whose
mainstays are a deep and solid piety, sound doctrine, demanding
discipline, and personal conviction motivated by faith and love; a gradual
formation in progressive stages adapted to the natural development of the
individual. Because Legionary formation is personalized, there exists no
uniform standard which is applied to each individual in the same way.
Nevertheless, the stages of formation normally include:
Candidacy: A summer program of introduction, discernment and experience of
life in the Legion of Christ lived in an atmosphere of faith, peace, and
genuine interior freedom.
Novitiate: Two years of intense spiritual formation and initiation into
the specific apostolates of the Legion of Christ.
Humanities: One or two years of studies in the humanities, with special
emphasis on classical languages and universal culture, without neglecting
the study of the sciences.
Philosophy: Studied in Rome. Each one takes a Master's degree. The
philosophical systems of perrenial value are given pride of place, and
contemporary trends are examined in depth.
Internship: After the second year of philosophy, two or three years of
apostolic experience in the field.
Theology: Again in Rome, and again a Master's degree. After a thorough
grounding in the basics, special care is given to a precise understanding
of modern issues, bringing them into perspective.
Ordination: Ordination to the priesthood is followed by ministry.
Postgraduate Studies: A doctorate in philosophy, theology or other fields
of learning, when needed for a specific apostolate.
APOSTOLATES OF THE LEGION OF CHRIST
The Legionaries of Christ understand their apostolic mission as a
participation in Christ's redemptive mission: salvation must reach each
and every person, without any distinction.
In accord with the pastoral programs of each diocese, they seek above all
to awaken among lay Christians the awareness of their baptismal vocation
to sanctity and to the spreading of the Gospel. Through retreats, the
sacraments of Eucharist and Penance, and spiritual direction, souls are
led to conversion and to the life of grace.
Through instruction in the faith and prayer, the Legionaries prepare these
men and women to spread the message of salvation, not only through their
prayer and example, but by concrete, organized, and committed action.
In collaboration with the laity, the Legionaries of Christ carry out
apostolic works principally in seven basic areas:
Missions
Since 1970 Legionaries of Christ have served in the mission territory of
Quintana Roo, Mexico. Approximately 10% of Legionary priests dedicate
their lives to the service of 400,000 native brothers and sisters living
in an area of 19,359 square miles. Another important missionary apostolate
is the promotion of neighborhood missions in urban and rural areas. In
collaboration with local parishes, thousands of lay people young people
and even entire families go door to door in an attempt to bring the Gospel
to those in greatest spiritual need and to promote their complete human
and social well-being.
Promoting Catholic Doctrine
Works such as the "School of the Faith", an international Pontifical
Catechetical Institute founded for the purpose of preparing lay
catechists. Since its foundation in 1976 the School of the Faith has
developed an integrated program of religious and academic formation of
international prestige.
Education
The direction of schools (primary, secondary, university and post-graduate
levels). The Legion of Christ presently directs more than 100 educational
institutions.
Human and Christian Advancement of Neglected Groups in Society
Special attention to the human and Christian promotion of the poor and
needy sectors of society through a great variety of programs. Students
enrolled in educational institutions directed by the Legion of Christ are
required to dedicate time to social action and works of Christian charity.
Presently there are more than 800 centers for social service of this type
directed by the Legionaries of Christ.
Promotion of the Family
Family Guidance Centers and Alpha Omega Consultation Centers worldwide for
the human and Christian promotion of the family.
Mass Media
Works dedicated to the spreading of the Gospel through means of social
communication (radio, television, etc.).
Spiritual Collaboration with Diocesan Priests.
Works dedicated to the preparation, on-going formation, and support of
diocesan priests.
List of vocation promotors in other countries:
AUSTRALIA Fr. Desmond Coates, L.C. Toowoomba Darling Heights Queensland,
4350 Tel: 30 10 16
MEXICO México, D.F. Fr. Enrique Vizcaíno, L.C. Fernando Alencastre 360
Lomas de Virreyes 11000 México, D.F. Tel: 540 3871
Monterrey Fr. Ricardo Sada, L.C. Real de San Agustín, 302 Residencial San
Agustín 66260 Garza García, N.L. Tel: 363 1243
VENEZUELA Fr. Gabriel del Valle, L.C. Calle San Luis s/n. Urbanización San
Luis 1061 Caracas Tel: 986 8339
ARGENTINA Fr. Arturo Díaz, L.C. Parroquia Santa María Magdalena de Betania
Medrano Nº 752 1179 Buenos Aires Tel: 862 0825
BRAZIL Fr. Ignacio Villaseñor, L.C. Av. Bom Retiro s/n. Casa de orocao
María de Nazareth CEP-13314-070 ITU, Sao Paolo Tel: 482 46 55
COLUMBIA Fr. Rafael González, L.C. Calle 81 sur concarrera Nº 65 Finca
Piamonte La Estrella Antiquía Colombia Tel: 279 02 02
CHILE Fr. Francisco Carvajal, L.C. Av. Suecia 826 Providencia, Santiago
Tel: 274 82 98
GERMANY Fr. Eamon Kelly, L.C. Noviziat der Legionäre Christi Linnerijstr
25 D-53902 Bad Munstereifel Tel: 225 32003
SPAIN Fr. Salvador Fernández, L.C. Avda. de la Merced 108-120 37005
Salamanca Tel: 23 220 950
FRANCE Fr. Rafael Larocca, L.C. 70 Allée Jules Verne 78170 La Celle Saint
Cloud Tel: 39 18 05 07
HOLLAND Fr. Vincent McMahon, L.C. Nassaustraat Nº 39 6463 AS Kerkrade Tel:
21 29 81
IRELAND Fr. Eugene Gormley, L.C. Leopardstown Road Foxrock, Dublin 18 Tel:
295 5985
ITALY Fr. Hernán Jiménez, L.C. Istituto Gentile Via Gentile 7 28024 Gozano
Novara Tel: 3 22 94 03
POLAND Fr. Cristóforo Gutiérrez, L.C. Ml. Nazareitanska Nº 1 30680
Cracovia Tel: 55 26 00
SWITZERLAND Fr. Emilio Tomás, L.C. R. Du Pont Brie 1833 Les Avants Tel:
964 46 88
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