Commissioner likely to oversee Legion of Christ

Moderate Catholic reporter and defender of the Opus Dei, John Allen, in Rome, picks up on story in Catholic Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera, and presents this hyposthesis
Allen discusses several possible candidates.
Above, some of the blogger's favorites

The Extent of Fr. Maciel's Sexual Abuse of his own Seminarians -Hundreds?

Legionaries release Communique acknowledging the Sins of Our Father. It appears that his acknowledgement was accompanied by the usual "Letter from Fr. Alvaro [Superior General] as a way of softening the blow to the members and giving them the "official spin" for their spiritual mediation...

"All good Pedophiles never die, they all just fade away"

The Apostle Paul tells us the Love does not rejoice in evil. So I do not rejoice. But I complain; even the LC acknowledgement is flawed, perhaps a reflection on the Legion's effort to regenerate and come clean, "Too Little, Too Late"
It is just sad.
The filth is great, deep, and widspread.
Fr. Maciel abused many more than those who first publicly accused him. They were originally ten. At that time the Legion and its supported tried to whittle down the numbers, from 10 to 8 and also implied that it was a conspiracy, and that the accusers had been paid, or that they had tried to bribe others -that was the gist of statements atrributed to Valente Velasquez and others. Miguel Diaz, sadly again, and the writer knew him, was taught by him and respected him, was on/off; I do believe Maciel got to him to threaten him and make him retact.
But we must move beyond that small number. A total of about 30 former Legionaries came forward in Mexico to Scicluna in April 2005.
I report in my book, Our Father who art in bed -a truly prophetic title!- receiving an accusation from Michael Caheny, a fellow seminarian of mine. This leads me to believe that Maciel continued sexually abusing seminarians at least through the 1960s, and that he did not limit his "specific apostolate" to Mexicans and Spaniards.
In the documentary "Vow of Silence" and American former legionary priest alludes to Maciel making an ambiguous gesture during a car trip...in the 1990s' 
Fr. Maciel often "blackmailed" and "rewarded" his victims -at the same time, the clever fox- by placing them in leadership positions.

It would not surprise me if some of the Legion top brass, and some of those who publicly defended him, were his victims.

In more recent weeks we have been hearing accusations against Fr Maciel for abusing his family members; which consititutes INCEST; although, as I have written before, abusing his own seminarians was certainly of an incestuous nature.
The man had no limits.
Folks, be prepared for more filth to come out of this pigsty. And don't lose your Faith in God, Jesus, or the Church over this. It is only the depths of Human Depravity. 

More still, perhaps it is the result of a small boy being physically abused in a home, and sexually abused on a ranch in Mexico in the 1920-30s

The Pedophile Priest, the Popes, and Maciel's children [photos]

Yahoo alert 4/1/10 leading to Slideshow and captions.

Maciel Victims reject Legion's Plea for [Cheap] Pardon

         

Arturo Jurado (left) with Paul Lennon, San Miguel Allende, Mexico

                                                    Jose Barba, PhD [Harvard] eating ice-cream in Geneva                                                     at  International Cultic Studies Association Conference

just got from Mexico's Reforma; no time to translate

Article cites Raul Gonzalez Lara [son of Mr Gonzales, one of Fr Maciel's aliases] and Jose Barba, PhD, [ITAM University, Mexico City] co-signer of the various accusations against the Legion Founder since the 1970s

Catholic reporters Renner & Berry brought the accusations to the American Public in 1997 where they were met by denial by Maciel [he forgave his slanderers] and the Legion [they slandered the accusers]

Félix Alarcón Hoyos, José de Jesús Barba Martín, Saúl Barrales Arellano, Alejandro Espinosa Alcalá, Arturo Jurado Guzmán, Fernando Pérez Olvera, José Antonio Pérez Olvera y Juan José Vaca Rodríguez.

Legion Communique Asks for Pardon without Paying for it!

Link to Communique from a Legion friendly source

Heck, I just dont want to be sued again!

Dear Readers,

here is the groundbreaking and earthshattering communique that you have all been waiting for during the past year or so.

• Legion says:
• It was all Fr.  Maciel's fault. We dont want to have anything to do with him.
• Erase him from your memories
• Despite being totally corrupt he gave us a Divine Charism because God writes straight with crooked lines and makes bad trees produce good fruit; its just another miracle you can easily believe
• Because we are successful, our works speak louder than Fr Maciel's sins
• Get over it!
• We were wrong, you were right about him screwing with his own spiritual children,
• Yes, it was pedophilia and incest. Now move on and forgive him and us.
• We have important things to do, like protect our Charism
• Forgive us, Please
• We will be good boys and girls from now on
• Everybody globally forgive us;
• We cannot name those we have so gravely offended [they might sue us, God forbid!]
• We are sorry
• Pray for us and we will pray for you
• We promise to do 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,7,8 
• Dont you trust us to do what we promise!
• Have we ever deceived anyone or reneged on our promises?

Maciel with Mistress and Daughter in Cotija, Mich, Mexico, 2005

Consecrated lady, Maciel/Rivas, his daughter, Norma, 3 consecrated ladies, and Norma, Maciel's Mistress;

[March 5, 2005 date on photo]

exlc.blogspot.com gave this scoop

under  the title The Plot Thickens

Photos show Fr. Maciel/Mr. Rivas with his mistress, Norma, and his daughter, Norma, visiting with the Consecrated ladies in Cotija(?)

Fr. Jesús Quirce, Fr. Maciel, various Consecrated, and in the back at right, Fr. Marcelino de Andrés.

How did the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi become associated with "Cult"

REGAIN website re activated a couple weeks ago with some fine articles; for example the one mentioned in the heading