Brussels Cardinal Closes Down Community

The Charismatic Community of the Word of Life (Verbe de Vie), founded in 1986, will be dissolved as of July 2023, anti-Catholic Brussels Cardinal de Kesel announced after a 2022 canonical visitation.
The community was welcomed into Brussels Archdiocese in 2010 as a private association of the faithful. Its main house is in Andecy Abbey, near Paris. The dissolution is justified by "serious and systemic dysfunctions since the foundation." 240 members have left the community in 30 years.
The founding couple inoculated a manipulative governance, which infused itself among their successors who did everything to hide the truth from the bishops and to manipulate them.
The spiritual guide of the community from 1986 to 2013, Father Jacques Marin (+2019), a worker-priest of the Mission de France, was accused by several women of sexual abuse during confession.
A 2002 canonical visit noticed a confusion between the internal and external forums, a hold exerted by the founding couple, a lack of training …More