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The Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious institute, operates the Our Lady of Thornwood Conference, Education and Training Center on the site of a former IBM facility on Columbus Avenue.

The seminarians studying here for the Catholic priesthood usually major in philosophy at the Thornwood Conference Center.

However, due to a lack of vocations and private funds-partly due to the shocking abuse scandal caused by the order's founder, Father Marcial Maciel Degollado ( who had at one time been admired by Blessed Pope John Paul II ), which resulted in a Vatican investigation and revision-the entire course of Seminary studies will now be taken at the Legionaries ' Seminary in Rome, Italy and the building will be sold.