Finally!... Fr. Maciel's principal lieutenant has been 'purged' from the top leadership of the Legion of Christ. As long as he was there, something was dubious about how Cardinal De Paolis was carrying out the Pope's mandate to clean out the LC and see how it could best continue to do the good work it does, without the 'see-hear-speak-no-evil' policy of the men Maciel left behind. This follows a sort of situation report by the AP's Nicole Winfield last November (see Page 262 of this thread), in which De Paolis justified why he had not dismissed Maciel's men one year since he took control of the LC at the Pope's orders......
I am surprised that only the Spanish media appear to have picked up the announcement made on the site of the LC yesterday. Not even Sandro Magister who has been very gung-ho against the Maciel team all these years. I myself come one day late to the news, after seeing a Mexican-TV link posted on Lella's blog today....Could it be that the Italian media, for starters, simply do not want to record yet another 'good news' point for the Vatican to spoil their current narrative of a do-nothing, corruption-ridden, power-mad careerists?
Vatican names new superiors
for Legionaries of Christ
Rome, February 16 - The pontifical delegate for the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi, Cardinal Velasio de Paolis, C.S., with the consent of his council, named Fr. Sylvester Heereman, L.C., vicar general of the Legion of Christ, and named Fr. Deomar De Guedes, L.C. the second general councilor for the congregation.
The two replace Fr. Luis Garza Medina, L.C. and Fr. Francisco Mateos Gil, L.C., respectively, both of whom presented their resignation in recent months.
Fr. Sylvester Heereman, L.C. was born September 10, 1974 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany. He entered the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in Germany in 1994, and made his first profession in 1996. He made his perpetual profession in 1999.
From 2001 to 2003 he served as the territorial secretary for Italy, and from 2004 to 2006 he was part of the formation team in the Center for Higher Studies in Rome, where he also completed his studies in philosophy and theology.
He was ordained a priest on December 23rd, 2006. On February 6, 2007 he was named territorial director of Germany, and after the territories of Germany and France were joined, he became territorial director of Western and Central Europe on June 10, 2011.
Fr. Deomar De Guedes Vaz, L.C. comes from Santo Ângelo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was born on November 13, 1961 and entered the novitiate of the Legion of Christ in 1992. He made his first profession on March 20,1994 and his perpetual profession in 1997.
He has collaborated in the formation of diocesan seminarians in the International Pontifical College Maria Mater Ecclesiae of Rome and for some time he served as rector in the formation center for Regnum Christi consecrated men in Mexico City.
After his priestly ordination on January 1, 2000 he has worked as a vocational promoter (2001-2002), territorial director of Spain (2002-2005), superior for the community and local coordinator of apostolate in Buenos Aires (2005-2008), and rector of the Brazilian seminary Maria Mater Ecclesiae (since 2008).
Fr. Sylvester and Fr. Deomar will continue their current duties until their replacements are named.
One imagines both Heereman and Gues Vaz were never in the circle of Maciel confidants who carried on at LC after Maciel's conclusive disgrace and subsequent death. Still in place, however, is Fr. Alvaro Corcuera who succeecdd Maciel in2005 as Director General. A Mexican news outlet gives further background information which I will post as an addendum after I have translated.
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