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United States 01/07/2014 07:20 PM
 Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Troubled Legion of Christ opens critical meeting on future:Its founder was revealed to have been a pedophile and a fraud The Legion was once held up as a model by the Vatican, which turned a blind eye to the Rev. Marcial Maciel's misdeeds. Quite a bit of misconduct going on at the legion. _One was accused of sexual abuse by a former member. The Legion insisted it couldn't corroborate the claim but restricted his ministry to keep him away from children. _Another was implicated in U.S. court documents that found the Legion used undue influence to persuade an elderly widow to give $60 million to the order. _And yet another, the current director general, admitted he knew that the Legion's public face, Thomas Williams, had fathered a child of his own and yet was allowed to continue teaching and preaching morality for years. Williams recently married the daughter of one of Francis' top advisers, the former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon [ link to www.woodtv.com] |