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Pius XII considered removing Fr. Maciel, Founder of Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi, from the Priesthood -and more Vatican failed interventions

On July 21, 2024 the following news item was covered by most of the important media outlets worldwide

Associated Press:

Vatican’s Pius XII archives shed light on another contentious chapter: The Legion of Christ Scandal.

Read for yourself about the Vatican’s 1956-58 intervention of Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the then Legionaries of Christ, morphed in the past few years into Regnum Christi Movement, in an effort to distance the founder from the order and movement he created. The most recent Vatican intervention, headed by then Mons. De Paolis concluded in the same murky waters of failure: he, the Apostolic Administrator, failed to clean house, making nice with the LC leadership cadre instead of ceasing them from their posts as recommended St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguouri whom I quoted in my 2020 book:

For the Catholic, Christian or thinking person these failed Vatican interventions (1956-58; 2000-2005) cry out to heaven for truth and justice.

We are calling on Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, right-hand man to Pope Francis,

a Legionary of Christ from circa 1965-83, and a collaborator of Fr. Marcial Maciel ,

to do the right thing and intervene this Order and Movement he has suffered and knows so well.

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

THE 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 stay 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 one of his inner circle. 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 outreached 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.

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

We remember being privileged to participate in the Holy Mass celebrated by our holy founder 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. 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 might have fondled an altar boy, one of his seminarian “sons”, to the point of orgasm.

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