Cardinal Reinhard Marx arrives for the afternoon session of the Amazon Synod at the Vatican, October 8, 2019.

Daniel Ibanez
Cardinal Reinhard Marx arrives for the afternoon session of the Amazon Synod at the Vatican, October 8, 2019.

Cardinal Marx expressed sympathy for former members of the community, which was founded in 1948 with the intention of being, in its own words, “a place for an enlightened and unabridged Christianity.”