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Marcial Maciel started and controlled the Legion of Christ. Right wingers loved them. Pope John Paul II protected them. At its peak, they had a fortune of $33 billion. Macial was addicted to morphine, sexually abused seminarians, fathered children by two wives. The order has been smashed (finally) and it now appears it was buying [...] More information about the Catholic Church’s betrayal of their followers. (You’ll recognize the subject from Motörhead’s Orgasmatron) Many decades, according to Andrew Sullivan readers. We now face the largest institutional crisis in centuries, possibly in church history We urge this not primarily as journalists seeking a story, but as Catholics who appreciate that extraordinary circumstances require an extraordinary response. Nothing less than a full, personal and public accounting will begin to address the crisis that is engulfing the worldwide [...] Tom Toles, Washington Post Ireland, U.S., Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, detailed by BBC. Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Wikipedia list. Latin America. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru Philippines. “Hundreds of priests”. As reported in 2002! Malta. 45 priests in 11 years Africa [...] Eighteen years ago, she tore up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live. Her reasons for doing so seem much more understandable now, especially considering she was sent to one of the now-infamous Magdalene Laundries as a teenager. Benedict’s infamous 2001 letter to bishops around the world ordered them to keep sexual abuse [...] He expressed “shame and remorse” and said “your trust had been betrayed and your dignity has been violated” then managed to imply that secularization of society was at least partly to blame. Who knew that secularization was a factor in infants being beaten bloody and preteen boys being raped. The rest is about what you’d [...] Hitchens:The pope’s entire career has the stench of evil about it. In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the penis of his confessor. [...] How disgraced? Its founder and leader, Rev. Marcial Maciel, fathered multiple children, molested seminarians and children, plagarized a book, and was accused of financial misconduct and drug abuse. What a guy. Even with that, it took decades to remove him. In 2005 Cardinal Ratizger referred to Maciel as “filth” and when he became Pope in [...] HuffPo His former archdiocese disclosed that while [Benedict] was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children. The pontiff is also under increasing fire for a 2001 Vatican document he later penned instructing bishops to keep such cases secret. Cover-up, lie, conceal, slime the victims, that’s [...] |  | ||||
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