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Rome, Italy, Oct 11, 2012 \/ 01:50 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Father Alvaro Corcuera, General Director of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi, announced that he is handing over his responsibilities for the sake of his health.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI have seen before God that I do not have the health and energy necessary to face responsibly the demands of the general governance in the present time in the history of the Legion and Regnum Christi,\u201d he wrote Oct. 9 in a letter to his brother Legionaries and the members of Regnum Christi.<\/p>\n

\tFr. Corcuera has been General Director of the Legion since Jan. 2005, taking over from Father Marcial Maciel, who was found guilty of sexually abusing seminarians and leading a double life.<\/p>\n

\tThe Legion has been overseen since 2010 by Cardinal Velasio de Paolis, after an apostolic visitation determined that the order needed \u201cprofound re-evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFather Sylvester Heereman, the order\u2019s vicar general, will assume his new responsibilities on Oct. 15 and they will last until the convocation of the order's next General Chapter in late 2013 or early 2014.<\/p>\n

\tFr. Heereman is 38 years-old and was appointed Vicar General by Cardinal de Paolis on Feb. 16, 2012.<\/p>\n

\tReflecting on his decision to step aside, Fr. Corcuera wrote, \u201cI can see that the Legion and Regnum Christi are working their way forward on the path of renewal. It is path of suffering, still difficult and complex, but full of hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIn recent months I have felt the great support of the General Council, which has begun to take on an increasingly active role. Cardinal de Paolis has been close to us with his guidance, very wise, giving us his energies and his time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFollowing conversations with the cardinal and reflecting on the Legion's Constitutions, Fr. Corcuera, who is 55, decided that while he is not gravely ill, \u201csomeone who is in full health\u201d is needed to act as General Director. The decision is a measure to ensure his health will not be definitely compromised.<\/p>\n

\tThe decisions of the General Directorate will continue to be \u201creserved to the Papal Delegate,\u201d Cardinal de Paolis said in an Oct. 10 letter sent to Legion and Regnum Christi members.<\/p>\n

\tThough Fr. Corcuera will not be exercising his office, he remains the General Director of the Legion. He told his fellow Legionaries that he will \u201ccontinue to offer you my closeness and company, with all my heart, to promote with you and advance together with you along the path of renewal on which we have set out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe exhorted them to give Cardinal de Paolis \u201cdedication and adherence,\u201d and Fr. Heereman \u201cobedience and closeness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIn his Oct. 10 letter Cardinal de Paolis acknowledged Fr. Corcuera's generous self-gift as General Director. He announced that the next Chapter of the Legion will elect new superiors, and \u201capprove the new Constitutions which by desire of the Holy Father are now in the process of revision.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tIt was mentioned in the cardinal\u2019s letter that the idea for Fr. Corcuera to make \u201csomething in the order of a sabbatical year\u201d came from the cardinal.<\/p>\n

\tThe decision was made for \u201cthe good of the Legion and Fr Alvaro himself,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n

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