A short book containing the Blogger's Correspondence with R.J. Neuhaus following his "Feathers of Scandal" defense of Fr. Marcial Maciel, Founder of the Legion of Christ, accused of sexual abuse of his seminarians; together with subsequent revelations, the author's analysis and recent Vatican actions; Pope Benedict on Maciel in "Light of the World", Psychological Profile of Maciel as Psychopath Guru
Friday, May 15, 2015
How a Priest, Grooms and Sexually Abuses Young Women amid Church and Police Collusion in USA
This disturbing article appeared recently on Huffington Post
It describes abuses that happened at a girls Catholic High School in Baltimore. But this could have happened anywhere and has happened elsewhere.
This long and painful article helps understand the kind of things Fr. Maciel did for decades, inside and outside the Legion, especially with adolescent males...It also helps to understand how Church authorities 'do not want to be bothered' by this subject and tend to dismiss accusations and "protect their own"
The reader can grasp some of the fear and confusion experienced by Maciel's victims: "He is a priest. He is a saint. We are helping him with is illness....If we don't comply we will have to leave the seminary, we will never be ordained, never reach our goal...We are depraved. We like this. We are gay. We cannot get married....."
The malice and depravity of the priest is hard to digest. But we must remembered that we are talking seriously disturbed people who have a charming exterior; they are charming psychopaths, skilled manipulators and controllers who "get away with murder"
If you have not read already you can find more info re Maciel's Method of sex abuse at:
Jason Berry & Gerald Renner, Vows of Silence, book, and Berry's video on Vows of Silence;
In Spanish, Francisco Gonzalez, Yo Acuso al Padre Maciel y a la Legion de Cristo....
J. Paul Lennon on this blog, in the book and in his memoir, Our Father Maciel who art in bed
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Don't be so harse on Neuhaus, who was certainliy imprudent in making such a defense of Maciel without sufficient knowledge of the facts. He is now dead and unable to respond, so leave him in peace. De mortuis nisi bonum.
ReplyDeleteDon't be so harse on Neuhaus, who was certainliy imprudent in making such a defense of Maciel without sufficient knowledge of the facts. He is now dead and unable to respond, so leave him in peace. De mortuis nisi bonum.
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