Originally published at Southern Cross
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has formally suppressed Miles Christi, an Argentine religious order active in the United States, including in the Diocese of San Diego.
In a message to diocesan clergy, issued prior to his installation as archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy wrote that the decree establishes a one-year process when the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life will declare the effective suppression.
“The Miles Christi priests serving in our Diocese of San Diego continue to have faculties for their priestly ministry,” said Cardinal McElroy, who thanked the four Miles Christi priests in residence in San Diego for “their dedicated ministry among our youth, families and parishes.”
“They are in my prayers in a special way during this time,” he said.
Auxiliary Bishop Ramón Bejarano of San Diego made it clear that there is no suggestion that any of the Miles Christi priests in San Diego have done anything wrong.
“These men have done outstanding work with the students (at Cathedral Catholic and Mater Dei Catholic high schools and John Paul the Great Catholic University) and have agreed to continue their work through to the end of the school year,” said Bishop Bejarano. “We are grateful
