Legion Order Under Seige for Sexual Abuse, Double-Life of Founder

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(ChattahBox)—An extremely conservative cult-like Catholic religious order, named the Legionaries of Christ is under investigation by Vatican officials, after it was found that the order’s founder engaged in numerous abuses, including sexual molestation of male seminarians, fathering a child, political corruption, financial mismanagement and the “brainwashing” of young converts.

The order’s controversial founder, Father Maciel Degollado, a Mexican national who founded the order in 1941, died last year at the age of 87 amid a growing scandal.

The Legionaries are awaiting an unprecedented Vatican imposed visit referred to as an “apostolic visitation,” where a council of bishops will investigate the charges and financial affairs of the order and make a determination to its future survival.

The situation is so dire, and morale is so low, within the ranks of the order and the lay affiliate group Regnum Christi, that Vatican officials may have no choice but to completely close down the far-reaching religious order. The Legion boasts 800 priests, 70,000 lay affiliates and 2,500 seminarians spread across 21 countries, with a huge $650 million budget.


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[hedgehog]

1. Seperated at birth?

[lapfog_1]

2. I find that a Vatican investigation complaining of

"brainwashing" to be very amusing.

[LAGC]

3. "with a huge $650 million budget"

Think of what all that money could do for the truly needy. Instead its all wasted away on religious mumbo-jumbo...

[hedgehog]

4. The worst part is, that $650 milion budget goes in part to support

elements in the Church that want to move away from concern for the poor. Can't have any Libertion theology, you know.

[rd_kent]

5. Interesting how this article starts off calling it "cult-like"

When ALL religions are cults. It then goes on to say that this particular flavor of religion "engaged in numerous abuses, including sexual molestation of male seminarians, fathering a child, political corruption, financial mismanagement and the “brainwashing” of young converts." Huh? Dont they all do that, most especially the brainwashing part? Indoctrinating your child into your cult IS brainwashing. Idiots.