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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

Apostolic Nuncio Mentions Legion of Christ/Regnum Christi & Marcial Maciel re Sexual Abuse

Mexico bishops investigated over abuse cover-up allegations

Archbishop Franco Coppola , Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico, has revealed that 12 bishops in Mexico are being investigated for covering up the abuse.
By Madoc Cairnes  The Tablet, Nov 3, 2021

Twelve bishops in Mexico are being investigated for covering up the abuse of minors and vulnerable adults, although no conclusions have so far been reached, the Vatican ambassador to the South America nation has revealed.

Archbishop Franco Coppola, the Apostolic Nuncio to Mexico, said that some of the investigations, carried out on the basis of new norms established by Pope Francis, have been referred to the Vatican itself. 

With the Nuncio’s revelation that more than one-sixth of Mexico’s Bishops are under suspicion of concealing abuse, the image of the Church in the overwhelmingly Catholic nation is likely to be further tarnished.

In 2019 one bishop revealed that at least 103 Catholic priests in Mexico have been suspended in the past nine years for sexual abuse against minors, out of more than 271 priests have been accused of sexual abuse.

In 2020 the Pope sent the team of investigators he directed to Chile in 2018 to Mexico, in a move suggesting problems of abuse and cover-up in Mexico could be as severe as the Chilean crisis. Although the visit was cancelled, Archbishop Coppola, the Papal representative in Mexico, has made confronting the abuse crisis a personal priority. 

Mexico was at the epicentre of one the most significant cases of abuse and cover-up in the recent history of the church, that of Fr Marciel Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ.

An internal report by the religious order in 2019 concluded that Maciel had abused at least 60 minors over decades – during which Maciel, and the legion, were regularly lauded by the institutional Church.

The consequences of the scandal continue to unfold. When Archbishop Coppola released his personal email and appealed for victims of abuse to come forward, most of those who contacted them wanted, he said, to talk about the Legionaries of Christ. 

With 84 million Catholic residents, Mexico has one of the highest number of Catholic inhabitants in the world, second only to Brazil. The moral authority of the Church in Mexico has been eroded in recent years, however, with protestant denominations making inroads in the north and south of the country. Across Latin America, the portion of people who identify as Catholic has declined in recent decades, from around 90 per cent in the 1960s to 69 per cent in 2014. 

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