De Paolis Duped by the Legion of Christ?

such might appear to be the case after reading his Second Letter to the order,

Bad Reviews

Not Fr. Maciel

Now I feel real bad, and I am getting the guilty feeling I used to have while in the Legion. A couple of reviewers have been hard on me. I must examine my conscience, fess up that I have been a bad editor....mea culpa, mea culpa...
Maybe people dont want to read me explain what pedophilia is, and what clerical sexual abuse it, and how strenuously the late great Dr Neuhaus defended Fr. Marcial Maciel. Neuhaus did so, not because he knew Fr Maciel personally but because he was the founder of a very doctrinally orthodox order and because Fr Maciel was 'close to the Pope' and the order, the members, and the followers were Conservative...
He got waylayed by the Glittering Images, by the sirens singing those reassuring songs or "we are with the pope, we have to be good".
Maybe I am just being prophetic again, like I was when I entitled my memoir "Our Father Maciel who art in bed" -that got a lot of flack. Until people had to admit that Fr Maciel was in bed too much, with his feigned illnesses, with his seminarians, with a few women, and even with his own children...