Former Legionary of Christ, Fr. Jonathan Morris, Going Strong!

 

 WISHING FR JONATHAN CONTINUED SUCCESS IN HIS APOSTOLATE,

LET US RECOMMEND HIM TO JESUS AND MARY SO HIS FLAWED LC FORMATION DOES NOT LET HIM DOWN. MAY HE CONTINUE TO FIND HIS TRUE VOCATION AND BE HONEST WITH HIMSELF AND GOD.

Fox News analyst, author to address at Pro-Life Banquet Wednesday

An international celebrity and author will give the keynote address at the fifth annual Bishop’s Pro-Life Banquet, which will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bossier Civic Center, 620 Benton Road.

The Rev. Jonathan Morris, author, analyst for FOX News and program director for The Catholic Channel on Sirius Radio, and priest in the Catholic Diocese of New York, will speak on the theme for this year’s event – “Witness for Life.”

Morris, whose latest book is, “The Way of Serenity: finding peace and happiness in The Serenity Prayer,” also wrote “The Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts,” and “God Wants You Happy: from self-help to God’s Help.”

“We are excited to bring Father Morris to our diocese to promote our pro-life efforts and energize the faithful on how to continue uplifting the sacredness of life in our region,” said Most Rev. Michael G. Duca, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Shreveport.  “I am truly pleased at how our banquet has grown over the years and I am hoping to see one thousand people in attendance on March 11^th.”

Duca won’t be disappointed – more than 800 tickets had been sold two weeks ago according to organizers of the event.

The Pro-Life Banquet is open to people of all faith traditions who support the sanctity of life.  Project organizer Dr. Bernadette Boyd said, “Father Morris is well known to so many people because of his media outreach. We’re hoping that his presence with us that evening will give us continued momentum in the witness for life in this area.”

Just today, Morris posted the following comment on his Facebook page, “Come be with me tomorrow (Wednesday) in Shreveport, LA, to support pro-life efforts in that great city and diocese.”

RIP Fr Brian Fagan, "The Long Fella", is gone!

While visiting the Legion of Christ's only mission in Quintana Roo -which also contains very prosperous Cancun & Playa & Riviera Maya- I was able to chat briefly with bishop emeritus Mons. Jorge Bernal remembering old times.  He commented on some missionaries who passed away, among them that very kind and refined BF. Maybe the Legion's harsh system harmed him. Who will ever know? What struck me was:
WHO KNOWS WHAT GOES ON INSIDE A LEGION HOUSE?
HOW ISOLATED ARE THOSE MEN ON THE MISSIONS!
They live and die and nobody gives adamn!

Two Irish Lads (priests) Have Flown the Legion Coop!

 

Well, now, it is probably common knowledge by now that two of the lads have flown the coup. They were tired, fed up, of the Legion's unwillingness to change and the half-arsed efforts of His Eminence, Card De Paolis to clean house, the phoney charism, the continued rule of Maciel cronies, the money-making, the Mexican Telethon...the manipulation of Spiritual Direction, the hard recruiting of gullible boys and girls...

Now I can't mention names because of the Legion principle of "discretion" and because they might sue me or you or a girl named Sue

But I can give you a couple of hints that might stand up in court....

One if called D. for Dick, David or ...and the other is P....Peter or Paul or Patrick....

Hint number two: they are back on the auld sod. They want to remain padres...

(CORRECTION)The Real Stories of Two Legion Founders Passing Away: Javier Orozco Camarena and Gregorio Lopez

A former Legionary and friend  told the blogger of the passing of two of the Legion of Christ "co-founders"

As usual  their passing  may be greeted with glowing testimonials on the LC official pages which will almost elevate these two co- founders to the altars. Fr. Orozco loved German Shephard dogs so it is appropriate that he should be pictured with one.


Apparently a book has been written about the Legionary, Fr. Gregory:




Book Title: Father Gregorio, A Legionary's  Life of Surrender (a key word in LC/RC vocabulary;  "A Life Offered Up" "A Life in Oblation")   The blogger does not doubt that anyone associated with Malignant Narcissist Maciel would have suffered a lot.



Here is some of the nitty-gritty reality.

Fr Gregorio, Spaniard,  the older; he seems to have been almost the same age as the young Maciel who recruited him  in Comillas in the 1940s, a Jesuit-run seminary in the province of Santander, Northern Spain.

HONEST TESTIMONY OF ONE OF FR, GREGORIO'S COMPANIONS, J.A.P.O.. WHO IS NO FRIEND OF THE LEGION:

Por mi experiencia te puedo decir, digan lo que digan, que era una hombre de pro, gran compañero y que nunca se plegó a las amenazas o chantajes del P. Maciel.
Varias veces, enfrente de nosotros, cuando estábamos de prefectos en el Instituto Cumbres, se le enfrentó con valentía y...no pasó nada a pesar de las amenazas que dirigió Maciel. Para mí fue un buen sacerdote y excelente compañero.

(From my experience I can say, no matter what other may opine, that he was a decent man, a great companion and one who never gave in to Maciel's threats or blackmail. Several times, when we were Prefects of Discipline at the the Instituto Cumbres,  he bravely confronted Maciel...and nothing ever happened to him despite Maciel's threats. For me, he was a good priest and an excellent companion.)


 He was the principal of Legion schools for most of his career and was well known and well liked by the students from the upper classes that he supervised.
He was also well liked by the parents. He delivered spiritual talks to the rich ladies from Lomas de Chapultepec where the Legion's seminal Instituto Cumbres was located; together with Fr. Alfonso Samaniego and Faustino Pardo, R.I.P,  he laid the foundation for what would eventually become the Women's Section of the Regnum Christi Movement.

 Gregorio was often put down in front of the Legion community by Maciel for his lack of etiquette and good manners -a quality that pseudo-aristocrat Maciel highly prized. As he got older good Fr. Gregorio was reduced to celebrating marriages and funerals for the rich and famous. He was relegated to a community of senior priests on Ahumada Villagran in Polanco, Mexico DF where he would not be in the forefront of the conquering Legion forces and PR efforts.
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Javier Orozco, a Mexican, was from a later generation, being ordained in the 60s. Apparently he was one of Maciel's favorites, at least for a while, and was given many posts as superior and "formator" during his Legion career. It would appear that for unknown reasons at one point Maciel shafted him to Quintana Roo Missions. For several years he was  pastor ,"the Patriarch of Cozumel." He built a beautiful church there with local materials from Mass offerings and possibly with donations from some of his personal benefactors. (In the early years, Legionaries were encouraged by Maciel to have personal benefactors, rather benefactresses, to provide financial support for their studies. Some of these ladies were very rich and contributed large amounts to the expanding and ever ambitious and obsessive controller, Nuestro Padre Maciel). It could be that Javier kept some of these benefactresses to help him with his apostolic endeavors -something that Maciel would never have allowed as he wanted to have all the financial reins in his hands. Would this be one of the reasons Javier was shafted?

Read on about the intrigues of the Legion of Christ, their con-man founder and his merry band of thieves..

As regards these two Maciel victims,  MAY THEY REST IN PEACE; QUE DESCANSEN EN PAZ

Fr. Miguel Romeo, LC, passes away in tragic accident in Switzerland

 

Though no friend of the institution this unfortunate death of a good Legionary fills me with sadness:

Here is the official link

Former Legionary Prest, Sabin, Remains in Merida, Yucatan where he is involved in the political arena.

The official story re the EXIT OF PROMINENT LEGIONARY Fr Sabin stated that he returned to his native Spain. Maybe that is what the Legion wanted him to do.
According by blogger's info Fr. Sabin will reside in the city of Merida and will be engaged in political activities.

Fr. Jose Maria Sabin, LC, LEAVES LEGION AND PRIESTHOOD, rector of the Mayab University in Merida, Mexico

Heard it through the grapevine 
that big knob LC, erstwhile rector of the Anahuac del Mayab, the Legion of Christ's University in beautiful Merida, Yucatan, Mexico left the Legion recently and returned without explanation of goodbyes to his native Spain. 

Apparently his move happened very suddenly surprising his students and families in Merida 
 
Legionaries at the leadership meeting in Cancun, Sept 9th, were informed of this event

Fr. Sabin, according to the report below from one of his disenchanted confreres had been the Rector at the Anahuac Mayab for many years and had been a big mover in the expansion of the UNID (Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo) in Southeast Mexico.

Ayer martes 9 sep 2014, en reunión de legionarios en Cancún, la cúpula legionaria dijo que la haberse hecho público, se comunicaba a los legionarios que el famoso padre José María Sabin, durante muy lago tiempo rector de la universidad Mayab Anáhuac de Mérida y gran promotor de la apertura de sedes de la universidad interamericana para el desarrollo unid en el sureste de la república mexicana,
ha dejado la Legión de Maciel y el sacerdocio.
Sin más se comunico el regreso del padre Sabin a su España natal.

This news was signed by, Legionary on the High Wire, Father




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