Andrew Rawicki, who is currently serving as the Local Regnum Christi Director in Dallas, Texas, has been named as the newest member of the Territorial Plenary Council. He replaces Horacio Gomez, who departs the Territorial Plenary Council to serve as a lay member on the General Directive College of Regnum Christi.
The Territorial Plenary Council is a body that provides assistance to the Territorial Directive College. It offers its consent or opinion when requested by the college , and in this way assists the college in the exercise of its authority. Its collaboration is particularly necessary and important when offering its opinion on the evangelization strategy, guidelines and plans for the fulfillment of the common mission in the territory.
In the North American Territory, the Plenary Council is made up of the territorial directors and councilors of the Legionaries of Christ and the Consecrated Women of Regnum Christi, Tony MacDonnell, representing the Lay Consecrated Men of Regnum Christi, the two lay members who are on the Territorial Directive College, and two additional lay members.
Andrew and his wife Joanna retired to Dallas, Texas in 2019, where they now live in close proximity to four of their six children, and eight of their ten grandchildren. Another of their sons, Fr. Luke Rawicki, is a Legionary priest currently serving in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Andrew is a convert to the Catholic faith, entering the church in 1991. He then followed his wife, JoAnna, into Regnum Christi in 2001, after attending Encounters with Christ and Spiritual Exercises on the Northshore of New Orleans. Their introduction to the Legion and Regnum Christi had occurred in the years immediately prior, with their children attending Conquest and Challenge camps at Camp Bocamb. Andrew was thrilled to reconnect (after more than two decades) with Madeline Leblanc Cottrell, owner of the Bocamb property, when they both attended the North American Territorial convention in Chicago last year.
Upon arrival in the Dallas locality, Andrew served as the locality liaison to a regional Regnum Christi conference with Houston and San Antonio, and was appointed to the role of Dallas Local Director in 2020. He has also served as board chairman for a pro-life non-profit organization which ran a maternity home in Bakersfield, California. With his wife, he has completed several training courses at the Theology of the Body Institute, and has taught this critically important material to 8th and 10th grade boys for the past three years. He is currently in the middle of his first year of his second three-year term as Local Director. In his 23 years as a Regnum Christi member, Andrew has served in various leadership roles: as a team leader, Men’s Section Director, and Hub City Director for Holy Week Missions in San Jose, Regnum Christi Director in Dallas, and recently as one of the five elected lay delegates for the Regnum Christi General Convention held in Rome this past April.
