Confirming my own sentiments, which I have held since working for a Regnum Christi outfit for three years, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore told the General Director of the Legionaries of Christ that he cannot in conscience recommend that any lay person join Regnum Christi. About Fr. Maciel, Archbishop O’Brien had the following to say:
“It seems to me and many others that this was a man with an entrepreneurial genius who, by systematic deception and duplicity, used our faith to manipulate others for his own selfish ends.”