An Order reform causes resignation

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Fr. Marcial Maciel LC at the ordination to the
priesthood of Legionaries at Santa Maria. Father
Maciel is the disgraced founder of the Legionaries
and Regnum Christi.

Cindy Wooden of Catholic News Service reports that Malen Oriol, head of the women's branch of Regnum Christi, has resigned.

Malen Oriol, a Spanish member of Regnum Christi, had been offering to resign since October and did so again Jan. 24 during a meeting in Rome with Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, whom Pope Benedict XVI appointed in 2010 to oversee the reform of the Legionaries and Regnum Christi. The reform began after revelations that the order's founder, the late Mexican Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, had fathered children and sexually abused seminarians.

Read the full story at the B.C. Catholic website.