“Nos Parece Falso Presentar a la Legión de Cristo como un Grupo Sano”
COMUNICADO DE SACERDOTES EXLEGIONARIOS A PROPÓSITO DE LA DOCUSERIE “MARCIAL MACIEL, EL LOBO DE DIOS”
“Este comunicado no pretende hablar en nombre de todos los que salieron, pero creemos que da voz al pensamiento de gran parte de ellos. En nuestro caso personal somos sacerdotes realizados en nuestro ministerio de servicio a la Iglesia y damos gracias a Dios por las experiencias positivas vividas, a pesar de este escándalo y de otras negativas.”
ReGAIN observa como gran número de personas, católicas, cristianas y pensantes se percataron de la serie HBO-MAX, Marcial Maciel, el Lobo de Dios y del impacto que tuvo en los medios, de las reacciones de exlegionarios y exRegnum Christi, de muchos periodistas y locutores de televisión, y de la manera como el liderazgo de la Legión ha querido manejar la situación: hacia dentro cerrando filas, hacia fuera emitiendo documentos de prensa.
A ReGAIN nos parece interesante escuchar a un grupo de sacerdotes ex Legionarios que han ido abandonando la congregación durante las últimas décadas: explican sus preocupaciones, lo que han hecho desde la revelación de los desvíos del Fundador y del Cuadro de Mando; se presentan, aducen datos y opiones interesantes para nuestra consideración.
I believe this video from 2019, created by German writer, investigator and film-maker Christof Rol can be of great interest to you in your quest to understand the phenomenon of the Legion of Christ/Regnum Christi Federation, its founder Maciel, the Workings of the Vatican, recent popes, Pope Benedict XVI, Clerical abuse, cover-up by the Catholic leadership, and its devastating effects…
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?>
Upon discovering the Pandora Papers on October 3, the most passionate about the news of the Catholic Church were surprised to come across the name of the Legionaries of Christ. This holy family, involved in a vast financial package, is involved in one of the biggest scandals in the field. For several decades, multiple accusations of pedophile sexual assault have been brought against members of the Legion of Christ, made up of about 900 priests and present in Europe, America and Asia
Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: The Unspeakable Scandals of the Legionaries of Christ
Quoted in the Pandora Papers, the congregation of the Legion of Christ has been immersed in dark affairs for several decades. At the heart of one of the biggest scandals of the Catholic Church: Marcial Maciel, its founder, whose actions have been repeatedly pointed out.
Their actions were covered up for a long time before the scandal really broke out in the 2000s, more precisely after the death of the founder of the congregation, Marcial Maciel, in 2008. The Mexican priest resigned in 2006 after several accusations of sexual assault committed between 1956 and 1997. The man had been implicated in 1948 and briefly suspended the time of the opening of an investigation, stopped by the death of Pius XII. After regaining his functions thanks to the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, all the allegations against him in Mexico were automatically relegated to the rank of slander.
Marcial Maciel.
Many years later, in 1998, eight members of the Legion of Christ denounced his actions in the 1950s and 1960s on victims between the ages of 11 and 16. After a vast investigation by Benedict XVI, the Holy See ordered in 2006 the withdrawal of Marcial Maciel who was asked to “lead a withdrawn existence in prayer and penance.” This existence turned out to be full of secrets, some details of which were revealed shortly after his death in 2008. The New York Times then explained in its columns how the founder of the Legion of Christ had led a double life in which he had several identities, managed an immense fortune in all opacity and raised his own daughter. “Poverty, obedience, chastity”. The vows pronounced by each Legionary of Christ before committing themselves apparently had no place in the life led by Marcial Maciel.
At least 175 minors abused
These revelations were truly publicly acknowledged in 2010. An investigation by the Legion of Christ concluded that Marcial Maciel had indeed committed “acts of sexual abuse of minor seminarians” and said he regretted not having believed the people who had testified before. The same year, the congregation underwent a profound overhaul as part of its trusteeship by the Vatican, determined to take the subject head on. Apart from Father Maciel, other priests have been incriminated in this case, such as the French episcopal vicar Pierre Dufour, sentenced to 15 years in prison for “rape and sexual assault” – who had admitted his actions on at least a dozen young adults for several years – and Henri Le Bras for acts committed in the late 1990s.
Le pape François a déclaré en 2019 qu’il comptait faire de la lutte contre les agressions sexuelles dans l’Église catholique l’une de ses priorités.
VATICAN POOL – CORBIS
In 2019, a new report reported at least 175 minors who were sexually assaulted by priests of the same congregation from 1941 to 2019, at least 60 of whom were attributed to Marcial Maciel. If these acts are recognized, their instigators are still present in the ranks of the Legion of Christ. At least in part. We learned then, still in the same report, that 18 of the 33 religious accused of pedophilia were still in office, but had nevertheless been excluded from tasks related to minors. More importantly, half of the perpetrators were themselves victims of the same abuses. “In this sense, it is emblematic that 111 minors abused in the Congregation were victims of Father Maciel, one of his victims or a victim of his victims,” the report reads. That same year, Pope Francis made the fight against sexual assault in the Catholic Church one of his priorities.
The extent of the suffering inflicted by these clerics is revealed at the rate of the publication of new reports. The last one, dating from March 2021, revealed new figures and the identity of 27 priests. Among them, “two have died without trial, sixteen have been sanctioned, eight are currently in canonical trial and one has received a dispensation from the ministry without trial.”
More broadly, the Ciase (Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church) delivered a report on October 5 led by Jean-Marc Sauvé, former vice-president of the Council of State. His conclusion is alarming: in 70 years, there are 216,000 victims of sexual abuse by clerics and 3,000 predator priests.
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.
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.
