agnostic5
26.04.11, 10:54
Kim jest Marcial Maciel, założyciel Legionu Chrystusa?
Którego w 1993 roku papież Jan Paweł II publicznie wskazał jako na "przewodnika, wzór dla młodych", wcześniej Maciel był trzykrotnie delegatem papieskim na synody biskupów, w 2002 roku osobiście witał papieża w Meksyku, a w 2004 roku papież pogratulował o. Macielowi z okazji 60-lecia święceń kapłańskich za jego "ogromną, hojną i owocną kapłańską posługę"
Maciel built his base by cultivating wealthy patrons, particularly
widows, starting in his native Mexico in the 1940s. Even as he was
trailed by pedophilia accusations, Maciel attracted large numbers of
seminarians in an era of dwindling vocations.
In 1994 Pope John Paul II heralded him as "an efficacious guide to
youth." John Paul continued praising Maciel after a 1997 Hartford
Courant investigation by Gerald Renner and this writer exposed
Maciel's drug habits and abuse of seminarians. In 1998, eight ex-
Legionaries filed a canon law case to prosecute him in then-Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger's tribunal.
For the next six years, Maciel had the staunch support of three
pivotal figures: Sodano; Cardinal Eduardo Martínez Somalo, prefect of
the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of
Apostolic Life; and Msgr. Stanislaw Dziwisz, the Polish secretary of
John Paul. During those years, Sodano pressured Ratzinger not to
prosecute Maciel, as NCR previously reported. Ratzinger told a
Mexican bishop that the Maciel case was a "delicate" matter and
questioned whether it would be "prudent" to prosecute at that time.
In 2004, John Paul
