The Order Dicastery has declared the process he ordered after the final report of the Apostolic Assistant, Altabt Raimund Schreier, to be over, the community said.
The Vatican had appointed an Apostolic Assistant at the end of 2022 to accompany the Order in a three-year process in the reappraisal and reflection of its history and its founder Andreas Hönisch.
This was not a visitation.
According to the Order, in its letter to conclude the process, the Dicastery encourages the continuation of the path taken in recent years.
These included the promotion of "an open culture of mutual feedback," supported by "a transparent and clearly structured communication," the effort to "good relations with the respective local bishops," the "further development of a missionary pastoral," which also "seeks dialogue with those who have joined external groups outside the ecclesial community," as well as "strengthening of teamwork" in the apostolates of the community, according to the apostolates at the General Chapter in June, the results of the trial were formally enacted.
Interim report had found errors in the early days
The Order had published an initial interim report last year in which it admitted serious errors in the early days without mentioning concrete incidents.
The need for careful and reflective dealings with spiritual authority, the importance of education and conscientious accountability, and the reflection of polarizations in the early days were mentioned. In the next step, the Order dealt with its charisma.
The servants of Jesus and Mary were founded in 1988 by the former Jesuit Andreas Hönisch. In 1994, the community was recognized as a congregation of papal law by the Vatican. Hönisch was Superior General of the Order until his death in 2008.
The Community is still closely associated with the Catholic Scouting of Europe (KPE), which Hönisch co-founded in 1976. The Scout Association was founded in demarcation to developments in the German Scouting Association St. Georg (DPSG).
In the dispute with his order for the activity in the KPE, Hönisch was excluded from the Jesuits and was initially Augsburg diocesan priest.