Pope grants broad powers to Legionaries delegate

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The pope has granted broad powers to the archbishop he selected to overhaul the Legionaries of Christ following revelations that the order’s founder led a double life. A decree approved by Pope Benedict XVI and published Saturday on the Legionaries’website said Archbishop Velasio De Paolis can override the Legionaries’own constitutions as he goes about reforming the order and purging it of its institutional abuses.