3 posts tagged marcial_maciel

Marcial Maciel is dead Marcial Maciel, the founder of the conservative religious order the Legion of Christ, has died of natural causes at 87. He had been disciplined by Pope Benedict following multiple accusations of sex abuse from early in his priesthood.

Something weird is going on behind the scenes of the Legionaries of Christ, the congregation of super-smooth conservative priests whose Mexican founder, Fr Marcial Maciel, was accused of being a sex abuser in 2006.