Category: Legion of Christ

Judge acquits Legion priests in abuse-linked extortion case

by bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | abuse cover-up, Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News | 0 |

A judge in Milan on Monday acquitted five members of the Legion of Christ religious order and their lawyers of attempted extortion in a case in which they were accused of offering to pay the family of a sexual abuse victim to lie to prosecutors.

Legionaries’ updated abuse report reveals four new allegations

by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, Vatican | 0 |

The Legionaries of Christ received four new allegations of sexual abuse against members of the congregation between March 2021 and March 2022.

25 years later, Legion of Christ victims seek reparations

by bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | abuse payouts, Abuse survivors, Associated Press, clerical sexual abuse, Father Marcial Maciel, lead, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, Vatican | 0 |

Three of Father Marcial Maciel’s victims are still seeking reparations from the Legion to compensate for the abuse they suffered and the “moral” harm done to their reputations by the order.

Lawsuits make new sex abuse claims against Legion of Christ

by bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News | 0 |

The Legion of Christ, a Catholic order disgraced by sexual abuse committed by its founder and other clergy, is facing new allegations of molestation of children in lawsuits filed this month in Connecticut, where it is based.

Delayed Legion of Christ extortion trial goes ahead in Italy

by bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, News | 0 |

A judge in Milan has ruled that trial can go ahead in a case in which priests and lawyers of the Legion of Christ Catholic religious order are accused of offering to pay the family of a sexual abuse victim to lie to prosecutors.

Founders with feet of clay another challenge for Pope’s reform campaign

by bcadmin | Feb 14, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Enzo Bianchi, Father Marcial Maciel, Father Werenfried van Straaten, Jean Vanier, L'Arche, lead, Legion of Christ, Luis Fernando Figari, new movements, News, News Analysis | 0 |

Most observers of new movements in the Catholic Church would say they tend to share a number of characteristics, one of which is a strong cult of personality around the founder that tends to insulate such figures from suspicion and creates a series of disincentives for bringing forth accusations or complaints.

Rome university reverses decision to honor priest’s pro-life work

by bcadmin | Jan 14, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Father Frank Pavone, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, Priests for Life, Regina Apostolorum, the pro-life movement, Vatican | 0 |

For a variety of reasons, “especially in relation to the political situation” in the United States, the Legionaries of Christ university in Rome will not honor Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said the head of the university’s bioethics faculty.

Rome university to honor controversial priest’s pro-life work

by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Father Frank Pavone, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, Priests for Life, Regina Apostolorum, the pro-life movement, Vatican | 0 |

The Legionaries of Christ university in Rome plans to honor Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, with its “A Life for Life” award.

4 Mexican bishops investigated since May for hiding abuse

by bcadmin | Mar 5, 2020 | Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Archbishop Franco Coppola, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, Mexico, News | 0 |

The Catholic Church began investigating four Mexican bishops last May for allegedly covering up cases of pederasty, the Vatican’s representative in Mexico said.

Legion of Christ vows better abuse response amid new scandal

by bcadmin | Feb 27, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, clerical sexual abuse, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, Vatican | 0 |

The Legion of Christ religious order is promising accountability and transparency following damaging new revelations of sex abuse and cover-up that have undermined its credibility, a decade after revelations of its pedophile founder disgraced the order.

Suppress the Legion of Christ

by bcadmin | Feb 21, 2020 | Church, Featured, Legion of Christ, Marcial Maciel, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |

Fr. Marcial Maciel makes Theodore McCarrick look like Barney the Dinosaur in a red mozzetta. The founder of the Legion of Christ sexually assaulted dozens of boys and girls, men and women, who had placed themselves in his care. He had at least four mistresses, whom he kept in lavish apartments paid for by the […]

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

by bcadmin | Feb 17, 2020 | Associated Press, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, clergy abuse in Italy, clerical sexual abuse, Italy, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, second, Vatican | 0 |

The Legionaries of Christ tried to get a victim of abuse to recant his testimony in exchange for money.