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Legionaries founder sexually abused 60 boys, religious order's report says | |
2019-12-23 | |
The report is important because for decades until 2006, including during all of the pontificate of Pope John Paul, the Vatican dismissed accusations by seminarians that Maciel had abused them sexually, some when they were as young as 12. The order said the report, which was released on Saturday and covers the period since Maciel founded it in his native Mexico in 1941 to this year, was "an additional attempt (by the Legionaries) to confront their history". Maciel, who died in 2008, was perhaps the Roman Catholic Church’s most notorious pedophile, even abusing children he had fathered secretly with at least two women while living a double life and being feted by the Vatican and Church conservatives. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, 92, who was secretary of state under John Paul, was for years one of the Legionaries’ biggest protectors in the Vatican. We are a sanctuary order. Unhand us you brutes ! Pope Francis accepted his resignation as dean of the college of cardinals on Saturday and simultaneously changed church law to limit the dean’s position to a five-year term, rather than for life. | |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#4 [bows] Zenobia Trotsky inspires us buffoons. We try.☺ |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-23 16:54 |
#3 ^Bravo Dron!!! Shabash! |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-23 12:22 |
#2 Those Legionaires with their ruddy lances, at congregants throwing hot glances. Under every cassock and fancy petticoat; a Gehazi, a Judas, a clever old stoat. He's greedy, uncouth, lascivicious; but effects pretty beatific trances. |
Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-23 08:40 |
#1 The good news: Maciel, died in 2008. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2019-12-23 06:20 |