ROME — The papal delegate of the Legionaries of Christ named the new leaders of the order’s lay movement, Regnum Christi.
Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, who has been governing the Legionaries since 2010, named the new heads and their advisers, which include two consecrated laypersons from the United States, as part of a major Vatican-led reform of the order. The reform efforts came after revelations that the order’s founder, the late Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, had fathered children and sexually abused seminarians.