Pope and Vatican legitimizing Maciel's bastard Legion?

Maciel: historia de un criminal. Conversaciones y testimonios (Spanish Edition)




"Bring on the Players!"
this was a fun moment a couple years ago when Aura and I met with a group of players dressed in Geneva's Calvinist garb of the 17th Century.

But today I return from my vacation in warm and sunny Guatemala, looking back at Vatican intervention in the Legion of Christ Case. Is this a kind of farce, too, a cruel comedy of errors where the innocent are punished and the guilty go free? Darkness and cold envelop my soul.

-Investigation in 2005 into Maciel's sexual abuse of seminarians
-Slap on the wrist for Maciel in 2006  who disregards Vatican punshment until the day he dies
-Legion carries on in denial of founders sins, ubraiding accusers as rabble rousers...
-Vatican takes no serious measures taken against Maciel or Legion
-Maciel dies defended by his Legion hundreds and Regnum Christi thousands
-"For whatever reason" his fathering of illegitimate children is revealed by Legion in 2009, leading to a communist like "Historical Revision" of the person of Marcial Maciel
-Vatican gets serious again; launches investigation: bishops reports are seriously crticial of Maciel and his work
-Legion finally fesses up to Maciel's double life and hetersexual relations [A] and accepts the fact that he sexually abused his own seminarians[B]; rationale of transition from A to B is never clear;  Legion and Vatican "reasoning" appear muddled and confusing.
-Left in forefront of public attention is that Maciel is a "sinner" who led a disordered life; his pedophilia therefore lies hidden under 'the scandal' of  illegitimate children and the founder is ultimately portrayed as "hetero-sexually loose" rather than a Narcissistic Pedophile Psychopath.
-Pope, De Paolis and Legion henceforth cleave to this stance.
-Legion Superiors, Pope and Apostolic Delegate separate "depraved Macel" from  "fundamentally wholesome" Legion
-No substantive changes take place in Legion/Regnum Christi leadership or ranks:
-Maciel cohorts/superiors left in place and they continue to control the members with Vatican approval -"trust your superiors"
-In Interviews Pope describes Maciel as a "troubled person",  a false prophet who spawned a work of God: Pope Benedict in "Light of the World" page 39: That is the remarkable thing, the paradox, that a false prophet , so to speak, could still have a positive effect. It takes some Jesuit casuistry to wrap your head around that! Thank God BXVI was not infallible here!
-In October 2010 letter to Legion members Papal Delegate wants end to criticism from the inside and outside and back to normal in the Legion and Regnum; rank and file members to 'trust' their superiors.
-All will be set right with the token reparation to victims [exclusively Maciel's and not those of other superiors] who tow the line and humiliate themselves anew...Victims who have sought legal assistance will not be heard. Fr. Florencio Sanchez, LC, a total Maciel clone, heads the Comission. How in God's name can there be impartiality and justice!
A Chapter General and revision of the Constitutions will weed out Maciel's evil influence- according to De Paolis' plan.

How disappointing and totally disheartening for all those who suffered and continue to suffer in the Legion!


"But isn't it better than all these annoying complainers suffer rather than Fr Maciel's Divine Work be destroyed?" the Vatican seems to say.

Are Vatican and Pope performing a beautiful 'sanatio in radice', trying to legitimize the bastard Legion spawned by Maciel's concubinage with the Curia?

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Maciel: historia de un criminal. Conversaciones y testimonios (Spanish Edition)


Latest book by CNN reporter Carmen Aristegui.  I began to read her introduction to collected testimonies after penning this blog; the blogger is pleased that his points agree with Aristegui's; her explanation is more extense, better written, and more detailed.

Legion continues Major Fundraising among very rich wannabe Catholics

Let's play golf to keep training seminarians according to Fr. Maciel's system

Cardinal DePaolis, do you know the Legion of Christ is still Threatening Former Members?

Don't know if this will reach the Cardinals ears.

As Cardinal DePaolis reforms the Legion, the Superiors continue to threaten former members, friends and family with law suits if they speak out, or muzzle them with settlements

Pope Benedict and Cardinal DePaolis, please wake up!

Can the Legion of Christ be Salvaged? A former Legionary, now Active Priest responds

Fr. Richard Gill's statement featured in Chiesa by Sandro Magister

Fr. speaks from a position of knowledge and experience; he was in the Legion for over 20 years, he was a prominent Legionary in the USA
He has made a good transition to the diocesan priesthood [New York]
Please read his thoughs/convictions/ message

The Outreach Commission a Ploy by Legion/Vatican to Control Victims?

A careful reading of the small print re Outreach Commission could lead one to believe that it is set up to by-pass victims that have their cases in civil or ecclesiatical courts. If you don't believe see underlined passage in official info -and forgive us for being paranoid. On a cynical note: the announcement was made just as a very well known Maciel victim was being flown into Rome to speak with Superior General, Corcuera; good timing! He was told that his case would be at the top of the list...

The Legion's message is clear: be nice to us and we will be nice to you. Quite in keeping with the teachings of Jesus...


"Outreach Commission Created


The papal delegate’s decisions will be based on listening to the victims and a detailed report on each case.

Rome, Italy. January 31, 2011.

Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, the papal delegate for the congregation, has created the Outreach Commission, as announced in his October 19, 2010 letter.

The members of the commission....

Those who wish to be heard by the commission can write to the following address, briefly explaining the situation they would like to present:

Mailing address:

Outreach Commission
c/o Legionari di Cristo
Via Aurelia, 677
Italia – 00165 Roma

E-mail: acercamiento@legionaries.org


The decree constituting the commission stated that it would deal only with cases having a direct relation to the person of Fr Marcial Maciel. It will not intervene in cases awaiting decisions from civil or ecclesiastical courts.

When he presented the Outreach Commission to the Legionaries of Christ, Fr Álvaro Corcuera, LC, emphasized that its purpose is to “continue facing with seriousness and responsibility our recent history as regards Fr Marcial Maciel’s conduct and the implications and consequences it has had on some people. Insofar as it is humanly possible, we want to close this chapter in its more painful aspects, seek reconciliation, and allow justice and charity to prevail.”
[Interpretation: We want to get this crap behind us and out of the public eye asap]

At the same time, the general director of the Legionaries of Christ encouraged everyone to pray for this commission’s work so that it may be sustained by God’s grace and truly do good to the affected people and their families."

Ridiculous Commission Created for Maciel's Victims

While  the Legion and some media announce this a some great step in the right direction this blogger sees it as too little too late and more delay. Instead of putting victims through another humiliation of writing their abuse and requests, the Vatican should go into the Legion archives and depose leaders to get the necessary information. The Legion already has a good idea of who the victims are. The Vatican itself knows about some of the victims for decades. Let them start there immediately. Stop this Mickey Mouse work!

the abuses have been described many times in several books such as those by Jason Berry, Paul Lennon, and many others in Spanish

[see bibliography at end of Lennon's Our Father who art in bed.] Don't all Legion/Regnum leaders speak Spanish?

Should not the commission be much more impartial? The Legion and Vatican authorities have already been negligent and dishonest in prosecuting Maciel, other Legion sex abusers, and in reaching out to victims in real charity and justice.

Are the Legion and the Vatican waiting for more victims to die or become decrepit and thus save themselves dollars in pay outs?
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[News item from Fevruary 1, 2011]

Outreach Commission Created The papal delegate’s decisions will be based on listening to the victims and a detailed report on each case.


Rome, Italy. January 31, 2011. Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, the papal delegate for the congregation, has created the Outreach Commission, as announced in his October 19, 2010 letter.

The members of the commission will have two fundamental tasks. In the first place, they will listen to the people who are requesting a response from the Legionaries of Christ because of Fr Marcial Maciel or in relation to him. Then they will write a detailed report which they will submit to the papal delegate. With the help of his advisors, he will then make decisions about what the Legion of Christ should do in each case.

To ensure objectivity and impartiality in the commission’s work, Msgr. Mario Marchesi, one of the papal delegate’s personal advisors, will lead it. Four additional members will make up the commission: Fr Florencio Sánchez, LC (chaplain of the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid), Fr Eduardo Robles-Gil, LC (Regnum Christi section director in Mexico City), and two external experts: Fr Silverio Nieto Núñez, a priest from the archdiocese of Madrid, a former judge and magistrate who now directs the Civil Juridical Service of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference; and Dr Jorge Adame Goddard, a titular researcher at the UNAM Juridical Research Institute and a law professor at Panamerican University in Mexico City.

Those who wish to be heard by the commission can write to the following address, briefly explaining the situation they would like to present:

Mailing address:

Outreach Commission

c/o Legionari di Cristo

Via Aurelia, 677

I – 00165 Roma

E-mail: acercamiento@legionaries.org

The decree constituting the commission stated that it would deal only with cases having a direct relation to the person of Fr Marcial Maciel. It will not intervene in cases awaiting decisions from civil or ecclesiastical courts.

When he presented the Outreach Commission to the Legionaries of Christ, Fr Álvaro Corcuera, LC, emphasized that its purpose is to “continue facing with seriousness and responsibility our recent history as regards Fr Marcial Maciel’s conduct and the implications and consequences it has had on some people. Insofar as it is humanly possible, we want to close this chapter in its more painful aspects, seek reconciliation, and allow justice and charity to prevail.”

At the same time, the general director of the Legionaries of Christ encouraged everyone to pray for this commission’s work so that it may be sustained by God’s grace and truly do good to the affected people and their families.
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I say go to your local Church and civil authorities and sue the Legion's ass!

Blessed are you, Victims of Fr. Maciel!

Standing Jose Barba, sitting to the  right of blogger and spouse, Saul Barrales

[From the Catholic Liturgy of the Word, 4th Sunday Ordinary Time, Cycle A]

They were the ones I thought of as I heard the Gospel proclaimed. Oh, how true it rung in my ears! Oh, how powerfully it struck the heart! Oh, how deeply it cut to the very soul!

Dedicated to the Perez Olvera brothers -Jose Antonio y Fernando, Arturo Jurado, Alejandro Espinosa, Juan Jose Vaca, Felix Alarcon, Juan Manuel Fernandez Amenabar, RIP, Saul Barrales, Jose de Jesus Barba-Martin, and Miguel Diaz "who also betrayed them"...

and to all those from the same generation, such as Francisco Gonzalez-Parga, Juan Jose Gonzalez Martin del Campo, and many other anonymous victims.
and to all those anonymous victims from later generations, from Mexico, Spain, Ireland....sexually abused by the Legion Founder...
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Matthew 5

Introduction to the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes

1 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he began to teach them.


He said:


3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


4 Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.


5 Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.


6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.


7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.


8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.


9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.


10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.