Category: Critique of LC/RC

Part 1: How did the Legion of Christ survive Two Vatican Interventions? The Diseased Tree Parable

So, the question is not whether the Regnum Christi Federation bears good fruit or not. The question is whether a totally corrupt person, who is morally and psychologically sick, can found a healthy religious order (“congregation”, in technical terms).

HOW DID THE LEGION OF CHRIST SURVIVE TWO VATICAN INTERVENTIONS?

Autor: John Paul Lennon,

MA Theology, Gregorian University Rome 1970; Licensed Professional Counselor, Catholic University of America 1990; Active and contributing member of the International Cultic Studies Association

So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

          A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.

          Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

(Matthew 7, 17-19)

So, the question is not whether the Regnum Christi Federation bears good fruit or not.

The question is whether a totally psychologically unbalanced (Narcissistic Personality Disorder),

Morally Depraved Predatory Pedophile and Conman Manipulator

can/could found a healthy and holy religious order (“congregation”, in technical terms).

Pope Francis orders suppression of Sodalits. Conservative Catholic Movement[i]

Crisis Magazine, a reputable conservative Catholic publication called for the supression of the Legion of Christ in 2020

Matthew 7 is what Jesus says. The Vatican says the opposite in the case of Father Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi Movement, now in their latest reincarnation Regnum Christi Federation. After the most recent Vatican investigation, politely called in Vaticanese “Visitation”, we are to believe that the diseased tree (Corrupt conman and predatory sexual abuser of his own junior seminarians Marcial Maciel 1920-2008) can bear good fruit, namely the renewed Regnum Christ Federation.

 Jesus’ words are so clear and so strong; so black and white and we are inclined to make them many shades of grey. It might be said that Sacred Scripture is not the RCF’s strong suit. It would be painful to think the same could be said of the Vatican. Now I find myself ripping into the Vatican, as the governing body of the Roman Catholic Church; something I am not accustomed to doing.

So, the question is not whether the Regnum Christi Federation bears good fruit or not. The question is whether a totally corrupt person, who is morally and psychologically sick, can found a healthy religious order (“congregation”, in technical terms).

By the way, the two Vatican interventions I am referring to are 1956- 59[ii] and May 2009- [iii]

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[i] Pope dissolves Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after abuses uncovered by Vatican | AP News

[ii]Cassandra: The first apostolic visitation of the Legionaries of Christ: 1956-1959

[iii] Pope initiates Apostolic Visitation of the Legion of Christ | Catholic News Agency

El Pederasta Legionario de Cristo/Regnum Christi: sacerdote ordenado Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez  

Hace 2 años el tribunal eclesiástico dictó sentencia contra el Depredador legionario Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez.

Por esa época publicábamos la foto de una clase pública en el Ajusco donde estaban Antonio junto con Fernando Tamayo y José María Sabín. Tanto Antonio como José María rectores en la apostólica y ambos con acusaciones de abuso sexual.

Después de la sentencia, ARS tiene por derecho la posibilidad de apelar, cosa que hizo no una, sino dos veces. Al final las apelaciones no procedieron y la sentencia permanece. El periodo de la última apelación concluyó hace pocos meses.
La Congregación de Maciel no ha dado a conocer esta información ni la de otros procesos, sino que oscurece las cosas para cuidar su imagen.

El Pederasta Legionario de Cristo/Regnum Christi: sacerdote ordenado Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez

 

Delitos Graves contra el Sexto Mandamiento (pecados sexuales) con Menores” -¡por si se pierde la claridad con los latinajos!

Artículo publicado 7 mayo 2024 en “Legioleaks” de Facebook por Victor Hugo Santos

< Hace 2 años el tribunal eclesiástico dictó sentencia contra el Depredador legionario Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez.

Por esa época publicábamos la foto de una clase pública en el Ajusco donde estaban Antonio junto con Fernando Tamayo y José María Sabín. Tanto Antonio como José María rectores en la apostólica y ambos con acusaciones de abuso sexual.

Después de la sentencia, ARS tiene por derecho la posibilidad de apelar, cosa que hizo no una, sino dos veces. Al final las apelaciones no procedieron y la sentencia permanece. El periodo de la última apelación concluyó hace pocos meses.

La Congregación de Maciel no ha dado a conocer esta información ni la de otros procesos, sino que oscurece las cosas para cuidar su imagen. Con ello sigue dañando el tejido social y a la Iglesia porque impide que las víctimas conocidas avancen en su proceso de sanación y otras víctimas desconocidas puedan animarse a buscar reparación.

Antonio Rodríguez mencionó durante el proceso algunos nombres, las víctimas que recordaba. La Congregación no ha contactado a todos los adolescentes que estuvieron en contacto con el depredador, sea en el Ajusco, sea en Salamanca. Al menos no declara que han contactado a todos los posibles afectados, como hizo el Superior de los Consagrados, Félix Gómez Rueda mintiendo sobre el caso Amezcua.

El tribunal dictó sentencia… ¿y las víctimas? ¿Qué ha hecho la Congregación con aquellas personas de las que consta con certeza moral que hubo abuso por parte del depredador Antonio?

La Congregación ha intentado contactar a las víctimas que Antonio mencionó por nombre, con la intención de apoyarlas siempre que se sometan a sus estándares. Sin embargo esos estándares implican someterse a un comité evaluador, hacer un estudio socioeconómico de la víctima y canalizar en la medida de lo posible la reparación a través de Eshmá.

Algunos de los “encargados” de trato con las víctimas tienen trato y al parecer buenas intenciones, otros hacen sentir a la víctima que es su culpa.

Ojo, esto lo hacen ya los seglares contratados para el “trato con víctimas” a fin de exponer menos a los legionarios…

 

En el caso de la mayoría de las víctimas de Antonio Rodríguez, el tema corresponde al DT de México, sí el tristemente célebre Alberto Simán, el que dice que a él no le toca y de él no depende.

¿Por qué sigue la Legión ocultando los procesos en favor de las víctimas y de justicia contra los abusadores?

¿Será capaz la Congregación de sentarse a la mesa con víctimas sexuales de la apostólica del Ajusco?>

 

Editado por  la administración

THE MYSTICAL PEDOPHILE: Fr. Marcial Maciel, Founder of the Legion of Christ morphed into Regnum Christi Federation

MYSTICAL PEDOPHILE: Fr. Marcial Maciel, Founder of the Legion of Christ, morphed into Regnum Christi Federation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYSTICAL PEDOPHILE: Fr. Marcial Maciel, Founder of the Legion of Christ, morphed into Regnum Christi Federation

April 1st, 2024

My wife keeps telling me to forget about Fr. Maciel and the Legionaries of Christ. But I can’t . When you are a former Legionary and have lived with Fr. Maciel certain images and experiences stick in your mind. Not that I lived with him. But he was alive all the time I was a member of the Legionaries of Christ, 1961-1984;  Maciel’s age was 41-64; so he was fully functioning -if that’s what we want to call it- all those twenty-three years.

I was never one of his favorites or part of his inner circles. They keep asking me what I knew about his pedophilic abuse of his seminarians. The answer is simple: nothing. That circle of sexual abuse was hermetically sealed by the predator; the victims were sworn never to talk about it among themselves. They never discussed it until after they left the Legion -and were free from his mental control.

I only learned about such things later -after I had left the Legion! José Barba phoned me one day out of the blue when I was at the rectory of St. Matthew’s cathedral in Washington DC, circa 1987; ten years before Berry and Renner let the cat out of the bag in the Hartford Courant, February 1997.

I now wonder whether we former Legionaries suffer from secondary PTSD when we look back on our then innocent experiences and realize what was going on behind the scenes:

We recall being privileged to participate in the Holy Mass celebrated by our holy founder in the order’s  private chapels in Salamanca and Rome. We, the true Holy Innocents, watched Fr. Maciel’s measured movements as the master of ceremonies led him through the various stages of the ritual -with which he was not overly familiar!. And how Fr. Maciel would show so much devotion at the consecration of the host. How he would hold it up in his pale hands  above his head for all to adore, remaining a minute or more in that posture as he stared at the Host in mystical rapture.

We didn’t know that with those same hands, in the sacristy before Mass, he may have fondled an altar boy, one of his seminarian “sons”, to the point of orgasm.

Qué debería usted saber sobre Derivas Sectarias (Sectas/Cults): Riesgos y Factores de Prevención

 

Tendré el gusto de entrevistar al psicólogo catalán, José Fernández Aguado muy pronto el sábado 3 de febrero 2024

I will have the privilege of interviewing Catalan psychologist and cult expert, José Fernández-Aguado, regarding his new book on Authentic Relations and his insights into cult dynamics.

Seguir link:  El 2 de febrero de 2024 para mayor información e inscribirse

 

Beware of Cultic Leaders and Groups which pose as Religious, even Catholic: La Croix, leading French Catholic publication

Cult specialist Livia Bardin's helpful classic; Heralds of the Gospel, censured by Vatican but not suppressed. Saint Pope John Paul II blesses Fr. Marcial Maciel, LC, pedophile, psychopath and founder of the Legionaries of Christ now morphed into Regnum Christi Federation;  Father Fernando Martínez LC abused prominent Mexican TV personality  Analu Salazar and seven other girls at Cancun school when she was eight years old; Fr. Maciel embraces Paul Lennon after his priestly ordination; Fr. Urrutigoity, abuser, and founder of the Society of Saint John in the USA 1997, now suppressed.

<Beware of cultic leaders and groups

Often the line between a cult and conventional religion is blurred; and some cults even claim to be Christian while bear no resemblance to authentic Christianity.

By John Alonso Dick | Belgium

LA CROIX, France’s leading Catholic Newpaper

November 7, 2023

According to Hebrew tradition, when Moses went up into Mount Sinai in the 13th century BCE to receive the Ten Commandments (Exodus 24:12-18), he left the Israelites for forty days and forty nights. The Israelites became restless and fearful in his absence. Turning away from God, and led by Moses’ brother Aaron, they directed their devotion to worshiping the Golden Calf. It was immediate, provided simple answers, and required no thinking. An early cult.

There are of course more contemporary examples, where people become fearful, want immediate and simple answers to life’s big issues and problems. They stop thinking. Their critical faculties decline and they surrender to the simple but phony propaganda of cultic leaders. And they are usually supported by far-right movements with strong racial supremacy.

Turning fantasy and fiction into accepted truths

Quite often the line between conventional religion and a cult is not so clearly defined. Cults are exclusive, highly secretive, and authoritarian. Some cults even proclaim Christianity but bear no resemblance to anything truly and authentically Christian. There are also political cults, which attract and control because they act like captivating religions, whose only demands are obedience and unquestioned loyalty.

A typical cult has a somewhat theatrical and unaccountable leader, who persuades by coercion and exploits the cult’s members economically, sexually, or in some other way. Cult leaders shun and ostracize people who don’t accept the cult’s exclusive claims to truth. When it comes to truth, cult leaders gradually turn fantasy and fiction into accepted truths by continually repeating false statements in rhetoric, propaganda, and the media. Cult leaders are false prophets.

The features and signs cultic development

The American psychiatrist, Robert Jay Lifton (b. 1926), known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of political violence, delineates these three common features of destructive cults:

(1) A living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and who becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority.

(2) A process of indoctrination, persuasion or thought reform, commonly called “brainwashing.” In this process, members of the group often do things that are not in their own best interest, but in the best interest of the group and its leader.

(3) Economic, sexual, social, and political exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.

The warning signs of cultic development are clear:

  • It advocates authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. Leaders, if not downright evil are self-centered, mediocre, crass, and juvenile.
  • No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. Dissent and criticism are not permitted. Those who dissent are marginalized, excluded from decision-making, and labeled “troublemakers” or “dangerous,” or even demonic.
  • The leader promotes exaggerated and misguided fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophes, evil conspiracies, and persecutions.
  • Members of the cult believe their leader was sent by God to change the world; and all must therefore be obedient and loyal to the leader.

We all need to be alert to cultic leaders and groups. They are unhealthy and pernicious. We need to have the courage to speak out. They thrive on fear and fear of social change; and they take advantage of people by controlling information and promoting fear. In the process, they support a very unhealthy kind of religion.

John Alonso Dick is an historical theologian and former academic dean at the American College, KU Leuven (Belgium) and professor at the KU Leuven and the University of Ghent. His latest book is Jean Jadot: Paul’s Man in Washington (Another Voice Publications, 2021).

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official editorial position of La Croix International)

 

Read more at: https://international.la-croix.com/news/culture/beware-of-cultic-leaders-and-groups/18649&gt;

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