Before I post my next article, on “Conscience and False Conscience” in emergent ecclesial movements, I’d like to share a few relevant and important links on this difficult topic.

First, in January, before the news of the Maciel scandal broke, Vatican journalist John Allen wrote a piece which puts the LC/RC crisis in context, specifically the smaller but not wholly dissimilar crisis in the Lumen Dei movement: Benedict Careful about Catholic ‘new movements.”

Then there’s CNA news article: Vatican not considering ‘immediate’ action in wake of Legionaries’ crisis. (I confess I shake my head a little at this one, but it ain’t over, as they say, till it’s over.)

George Weigel’s controversial, but in my view on-the-money op-ed piece in First Things: “Saving What Can Be Saved.”

Similarly, Phil Lawler’s “The Legionaries after Maciel” and Germain Grisez’s Open Letter to Legionaries.