Friday, March 23, 2012

Pope's Mexico trip clouded by Legion victim's book

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late Rev. Marcial Maciel, founder of Legionaries of Christ, during a special audience the pontiff granted to about four thousand participants of the Regnum Christi movement, at the Vatican. During the upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico in March 2012, a book titled in Spanish Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Mexico this week to a very public reminder of one of the Catholic Church's most egregious sex abuse scandals: A new book says internal Vatican documents show the Holy See knew decades ago of allegations that the Mexican founder of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order was a drug addict and pedophile.


 
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