Legion Order Under Seige for Sexual Abuse, Double-Life of Founder
July 20, 2009
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[...] Legion Order Under Seige for Sexual Abuse, Double-Life of Founder — An extremely conservative cult-like Catholic religious order, named the Legionaries of Christ is under investigation by Vatican officials, after it was found that the order’s founder engaged in numerous abuses, including sexual molestation of male seminarians, fathering a child, political corruption, financial mismanagement and the “brainwashing” of young converts. The order’s controversial founder, Father Maciel Degollado, a Mexican national who founded the order in 1941, died last year at the age of 87 amid a growing scandal. [...]