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!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Blessed are you, Victims of Fr. Maciel!
Standing Jose Barba, sitting to the right of blogger and spouse, Saul Barrales
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.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Legion of Christ New Priests with No Life Experience
25 of the newly ordained priest come from the apostolic schools. (40%)
Our Father......A Naive and Sentimental Dubliner in the Legion of Christ
25 of the newly ordained priest come from the apostolic schools. (40%)
Another large % join immediately out of HS
Balance during or after college
[The recruitment of very young and inexperienced "greenhorns" was one of the strategies Fr. Maciel practiced and bequethed to the order. He would not accept candidates with "twisted and already formed criteria" but wanted to mold members to the Legion prototype]
Key to data:
Name - Age when they joined - Where
e.g. Samuel Sanabria Martinez, age 10 when he entered the Apostolic School in Spain
1 Samuel Sanabria Martínez 10 Spain AS
2 Patricio Suárez de la Torre 11 Mexico AS
3 Felipe Villagómez Amézquita 12 Mexico AS
4 Francisco Javier Arriola Merlos 12 Mexico AS
5 Humberto Gaytán Hernández 12 Mexico AS
6 José Armando Vargas Gutiérrez 12 Mexico AS
7 Luis Miguel García Calvo 12 Mexico AS
8 Manuel Sanchez Padilla 12 Mexico AS
9 Pedro Guzmán Lupercio 12 Mexico AS
10 Raúl Rodríguez Pulido 12 Mexico AS
11 Victor Mata Valencia 12 Mexico AS
12 Armando Villanueva Manzo ? Mexico AS
13 John Ko 13 South Corea AS
14 Pablo Redondo Crespo 13 Spain AS
15 Alfonso Treviño Benavides 14 Mexico AS
16 Arquímedes Sánchez Ginés 14 Spain AS
17 Cristóbal Vilarroig Martín 14 Spain AS
18 Gregory Usselmann 14 USA AS
19 Joseph Ramos 14 USA AS
20 Marco Aurélio Mauricio 14 Brasil AS
21 Óscar Manuel Macías Pérez 14 Mexico AS
22 Vandoir Dal Berto 14 Brasil AS
23 Luis Felipe Najar Perera 15 Mexico AS
24 Aaron Smith 16 USA AS
25 José Ignacio de la Barreda Manso 17 Spain
26 Marcos Manchur 17 Brasil AS
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27 Aldonny Varela Vivas 18 Venezuela
28 Ignacio Sarre Guerreiro 18 Mexico
29 Juan Carlos Durán Ambriz 18 Mexico
30 Néstor José Guerrero Chacón 18 Venezuela
31 Óscar Cabello Galicia 18 Mexico Consacrated
32 Simon Devereux 18 New Zealand
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33 Carlos Proal Zumaya 19 Mexico
34 Denis Tassé 19 Canada
35 Fabrizio Bazzoni 19 Italia
36 Fernando Morales Lugo 19 Mexico
37 Javier Mariana Torrecilla 19 Spain Consacrated
38 Luis Miguel Rincón Valadez 19 Mexico
39 Pierre Caouette 19 Canada
40 Rodrigo Hernández Preciado 19 Mexico
41 Rogelio Aguilera Jiménez 19 Mexico
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42 Amedeo Martínez Ferro 20 Italia
43 Edward Bentley 20 USA
44 Galo González Covarrubias 20 Mexico
45 Jorge Ranninger Hernández 20 Spain Consacrated
46 Juan Ignacio Carrillo Niño 20 Mexico
47 Roel Osorio Villaseñor 20 Mexico
48 Timothy Lyons 20 USA
49 Valentin Gögele 20 Italia
50 Daniel Weber 21 Germany
51 Héctor Quintana Juárez 21 Mexico
52 Alejandro Valles González 22 Mexico
53 Chan Minh Dinh 22 Vietnam
54 Janick Caouette 22 Canada
55 Luis Ferraris Corella 22 Mexico
56 Nathaniel Haslam 22 USA
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57 Marco Zaccaretti 23 Italia
58 Michael Vanderbeek 23 USA
59 Thomas Gögele 23 Italia
60 Cassio Barros Neto 24 Brasil
61 Alberto Méndez Platonoff 26 Mexico
62 Andrea Giustiniani 29 Italia
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Legion/Vatican Delays Restitution to Victims
What did the Legion/Vatican do?
Begin the long process of reforming the Constitutions!
I say that this is not the Christ(ian) Priority
First is to beg pardon and make amends, in a whole-hearted way, not in a piece-meal and half-assed way.
Make amends and Pay Restitution.
Legionary, Demonstrate your Much Flaunted "Charity". Heed the Apostle James: "Show me your faith without works, and I will demonstrate with works my faith !"
Quote
What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith."
James, 2,14-18
Friday, January 7, 2011
Vatican refuses to Kill Legion Goose that lays the Golden Eggs!
My friend and fellow former LC, Jack Keogh, has something interesting to saw on his blog
See my brilliant comment:
irishmexican43 said...
Jack,
thanks for keeping up the good work. I may be getting tired of being a thorn in Maciel's ass and the Legion's side. We, the prophets, have already spoken and written. Church authorities have finally paid attention to our strident voices, like the ignorant Amos screaming in the desert. The Vatican has taken charge -and control- of the Legion reform, and in the process told us "enough criticism". It seems nobody wants to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs - are my metaphors scrambled, like eggs? They want to nurse it back to health. A disturbing though from Amos Lennon: are the eggs pure gold or just gilded? Does the goose suffer from lead poising or leukemia?
Monday, January 3, 2011
for all "The Faithful Departed" in 2010 [YouTube
the Taps by girl trumpeter, Melissa Venema, YouTube
very moving
especially for all the unnamed solidiers and civilians killed in the Middle East, in the Holy Land, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan...
very moving
especially for all the unnamed solidiers and civilians killed in the Middle East, in the Holy Land, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan...
Monday, December 27, 2010
Priests Formed by Con-artist Maciel capable of an Honest Life?
The Legion, aided by the Vatican, keeps churning out numbers of priests.
Are these 61 men, trained in Maciel methodology, up to the standards described by Pope Benedict in his 2010 year end address to the Curia. And, please, Your Holiness, Maciel and henchmen did not abuse boys because of lack of doctrinal orthodoxy and moral teachings; they reeked of these. Do not overlook the psychological and mental health aspects of our priests; as Aquinas says, "Grace presupposes Nature; but cannot replace it"; they need to be healthy in body, mind, heart in order to be good priests. In this blogger's opinon They have to be honest, truthful, sincere and authentic men before they can be good priests, something that Legionaries are not trained to be!
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John Allen summary:
The Christmas address to the Curia is typically the moment in which popes take a look back at the year. The fact that Benedict spoke first about the crisis reflects just how long a shadow it cast over 2010.
Sound-bites from the pope’s speech have been widely reported, but to understand what Benedict was saying it’s important to bring the full context into view.
Reading the pope’s words, there can be little doubt about his personal anguish. He quotes at length from a 12th century vision of St. Hildegard of Bingen, which vividly describes how the “garment” of the church is “torn by the sins of priests.” The pope said the vision is directly applicable to current events.
“The way she saw and expressed it,” the pope said, “is the way we have experienced it this year.”
June 29, 2010, marked the close of a “Year of Priests” called for by Benedict XVI, and he situated his reflections on the crisis in the context of appreciation for the “great gift” of the priesthood.
“We realized afresh how beautiful it is that human beings are fully authorized to pronounce in God’s name the word of forgiveness, and are thus able to change the world, to change life,” the pope said.
“We realized how beautiful it is that human beings may utter the words of consecration, through which the Lord draws a part of the world into himself, and so transforms it at one point in its very substance; we realized how beautiful it is to be able, with the Lord’s strength, to be close to people in their joys and sufferings, in the important moments of their lives and in their dark times; how beautiful it is to have as one’s life task not this or that, but simply human life itself – helping people to open themselves to God and to live from God.”
Especially in that context, the pope said, we were “all the more dismayed” by revelations about priests who “twist the sacrament into its antithesis, and under the mantle of the sacred profoundly wound human persons in their childhood, damaging them for a whole lifetime.”
Facing that ugly reality, Benedict called for an examination of conscience about what went wrong, and offered a resolution to make things right.
“We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred. We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen,” he said.
Benedict vowed “to make every possible effort in priestly formation to prevent anything of the kind from happening again,” and also expressed his thanks both to those who work to help victims, and to “the many good priests” who exhibit humility and fidelity.
At the level of diagnosis, Benedict returned to a familiar theme, asserting that mistaken theories in Catholic moral theology in the 1970s helped make the sexual abuse crisis possible. By downplaying absolute good and evil and treating morality as a matter of weighing consequences, the pope said, those theories opened the door to justifying gravely immoral behaviour, including the sexual exploitation of minors.
As a result, Benedict called for renewed emphasis in moral formation on Pope John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor, which explicitly rejected theories such as “consequentialism” and “proportionalism,” asserting that some acts are always “intrinsically evil” and can never be justified.
Are these 61 men, trained in Maciel methodology, up to the standards described by Pope Benedict in his 2010 year end address to the Curia. And, please, Your Holiness, Maciel and henchmen did not abuse boys because of lack of doctrinal orthodoxy and moral teachings; they reeked of these. Do not overlook the psychological and mental health aspects of our priests; as Aquinas says, "Grace presupposes Nature; but cannot replace it"; they need to be healthy in body, mind, heart in order to be good priests. In this blogger's opinon They have to be honest, truthful, sincere and authentic men before they can be good priests, something that Legionaries are not trained to be!
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John Allen summary:
The Christmas address to the Curia is typically the moment in which popes take a look back at the year. The fact that Benedict spoke first about the crisis reflects just how long a shadow it cast over 2010.
Sound-bites from the pope’s speech have been widely reported, but to understand what Benedict was saying it’s important to bring the full context into view.
Reading the pope’s words, there can be little doubt about his personal anguish. He quotes at length from a 12th century vision of St. Hildegard of Bingen, which vividly describes how the “garment” of the church is “torn by the sins of priests.” The pope said the vision is directly applicable to current events.
“The way she saw and expressed it,” the pope said, “is the way we have experienced it this year.”
June 29, 2010, marked the close of a “Year of Priests” called for by Benedict XVI, and he situated his reflections on the crisis in the context of appreciation for the “great gift” of the priesthood.
“We realized afresh how beautiful it is that human beings are fully authorized to pronounce in God’s name the word of forgiveness, and are thus able to change the world, to change life,” the pope said.
“We realized how beautiful it is that human beings may utter the words of consecration, through which the Lord draws a part of the world into himself, and so transforms it at one point in its very substance; we realized how beautiful it is to be able, with the Lord’s strength, to be close to people in their joys and sufferings, in the important moments of their lives and in their dark times; how beautiful it is to have as one’s life task not this or that, but simply human life itself – helping people to open themselves to God and to live from God.”
Especially in that context, the pope said, we were “all the more dismayed” by revelations about priests who “twist the sacrament into its antithesis, and under the mantle of the sacred profoundly wound human persons in their childhood, damaging them for a whole lifetime.”
Facing that ugly reality, Benedict called for an examination of conscience about what went wrong, and offered a resolution to make things right.
“We must ask ourselves what we can do to repair as much as possible the injustice that has occurred. We must ask ourselves what was wrong in our proclamation, in our whole way of living the Christian life, to allow such a thing to happen,” he said.
Benedict vowed “to make every possible effort in priestly formation to prevent anything of the kind from happening again,” and also expressed his thanks both to those who work to help victims, and to “the many good priests” who exhibit humility and fidelity.
At the level of diagnosis, Benedict returned to a familiar theme, asserting that mistaken theories in Catholic moral theology in the 1970s helped make the sexual abuse crisis possible. By downplaying absolute good and evil and treating morality as a matter of weighing consequences, the pope said, those theories opened the door to justifying gravely immoral behaviour, including the sexual exploitation of minors.
As a result, Benedict called for renewed emphasis in moral formation on Pope John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical Veritatis Splendor, which explicitly rejected theories such as “consequentialism” and “proportionalism,” asserting that some acts are always “intrinsically evil” and can never be justified.
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