Legionaries of Christ founder Father Marcial Maciel Degollado
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Miami Archbishop John Favalora has announced an immediate official ban on members of the Legionaries of Christ from exercising any ministry in the archdiocese.
Msgr. Michael Souckar, the archdiocesan chancellor, communicated the ban in a letter addressed to all priests of the archdiocese, Zenit reports.
The letter said that Archbishop Favalora made the decision based on alleged abuses of earlier permissions given to the Legionaries that restricted their work to attending to the needs of members of the Regnum Christi movement, a lay apostolic association connected to the Legionaries.
"In the past," it explained, "their priests were given individual approval by the vicar general each time they wished to come to the Archdiocese of Miami, but their ministry was restricted to their own members. Because the Legionaries of Christ have not abided by these restrictions, Archbishop Favalora has barred them from any ministry in the Archdiocese of Miami."
The letter further stated the Regnum Christi movement is not permitted to work in schools or parishes in the archdiocese.
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