Vatican to probe Catholic order

[IndianaGreen]

Source: BBC News

Vatican to probe Catholic order

Page last updated at 17:07 GMT, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 18:07 UK



Father Maciel founded the order in 1941

Pope Benedict XVI has ordered a probe into the Legionaries of Christ, after the conservative order revealed its late founder had fathered a child.

The Vatican said a team of priests would carry out the investigation to help the Mexican order to deal with its problems with "truth and transparency".

In February, the order said its founder Marcial Maciel, who died in 2008, had fathered a daughter with a mistress.

The Vatican disciplined Father Maciel in 2006 over sexual abuse allegations.

Father Maciel was banned from exercising his ministry in public and told to retire to a life of prayer and penitence, following allegations that he sexually abused about 30 boys and young men over a period of 30 years.
The priest - who founded the conservative order in 1941 - had always denied any wrongdoing. He died in January 2008 at the age of 87.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7975155.stm

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Ahhh, a future candidate for sainthood, right after Pius XII.

[AlphaCentauri]

1. For some reason alleged sexual abuses done by priests take too long to come public

why is that?

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Catholics probing each other. That's got to be the whole source of the problem.

[msanthrope]

6. It was such an unfortunate choice of words, wasn't it??? n/t

[Javaman]

3. really not good to have a headline with the words "probe" and "catholic" in it. nt

[Mari333]

4. yes, and last week the words "mount" and "republican" were in the same title

ugh

[JerseygirlCT]

5. Those guys are not an order - they're a very dangerous cult

People who get in cannot get out - they have to be stolen away. They're dangerous, and the Vatican ought to just toss the lot of them.