Above (left to right): Mons. Ricardo Blazquez, Mons. Giuseppe Versaldi and Mons. Ricardo Ezzati. Below (left to right): Mons. Charles Chaput and Mons. Ricardo Watty.

Rome, April 28th, 2010. The five bishops appointed as apostolic visitators to the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ will meet at the Apostolic Palace this Friday, April 30th. The visitators are scheduled to assemble with Holy See representatives in order to analyze together the reports they presented after their visitation conducted in all centers of the congregation during the past months.

On April 28th, the Holy See has released the following statement about this Friday’s meeting: “In reply to the inquiry of some of the members of the press, Fr Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican Press Room has made known some particulars of the assembly to which the five bishops in charge of the apostolic visitation to the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ have been invited: this is a meeting—declares Fr Lombardi—for the visitators to make a first presentation of their accounts and recommendations. Therefore, no one should expect any particular resolutions regarding the aforementioned Congregation. These decisions will be made later by the Holy Father, after attentively studying the results of the visitation and after reflecting on them. A brief communiqué about this Friday’s work will be released after the meeting.”

We would like to invite all our readers to pray for this meeting, especially during Holy Hour this Thursday night, and during other moments of adoration in front of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

25 March 2010: Communiqué regarding the current circumstances of the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement