Cardinal Schönborn presiding over spiritually abusive charismatic community. Yet another new religious movement becomes a scandal magnet.
Turbulence in the Community of the Lamb The Community of the Lamb is an association of the faithful founded in the 1970s by Marie-Thierry Coqueray, known as "Little Sister Mary." The founder left her congregation to adopt a mendicant and itinerant lifestyle. The community is part of the charismatic movement, although it is not formally affiliated with it, and seeks a return to the sources of the Dominican Order. In February 1983, the community received recognition as a "Pious Union"—an association of the faithful created for purposes of piety or charity—from Bishop Jean Chabbert of Perpignan. That same year, the Master General of the Order of Preachers, Friar Vincent de Couesnongle, accepted it as a "nascent branch" of the Dominican family. In June 1996, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and a friend of the foundress, became the bishop responsible for the community. Currently, the community presents itself as a Public Association of the Fa...
