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The pontifical delegate to the beleaguered Institute of the Incarnate Word has announced a new general council, as part of Vatican efforts to reform the congregation, and a new website for the group, largely because Vatican-appointed officials had been unable to determine who was actually running the group’s official site.
Bishop José Satué. Courtesy photo.The moves come after a recent decision to revise the group’s formation programs, amid a three-year moratorium on the admission of new members.
The institute has been accused of maintaining a cult of personality around its late founder, who was found canonically guilty before his death of abusing seminarians, and of covering up sexual and psychological abuse by some of its priests. And the Vatican-appointed commissioner of the group accused members last year of failing to recognize the harm caused by its founder, and of resisting reform efforts.
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The appointment of a new leadership council is the first major public measure made by Bishop José Antonio Satué of Málaga, who became the congregation’s delegate in January 2025.
Satué was appointed after the congregation’s previous Vatican-appointed commissary accused the group’s authorities of largely ignoring Vatican orders
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