VATICAN CITY: The new leader of the disgraced Legionaries of Christ Catholic religious order, whose founder was a serial sexual abuser, has promised to turn a page as the group enacted new norms to protect children.
The chapter approved documents outlining commitments for the protection of minors and vulnerable adults and for reckoning with its scandalous past. Although allegations were made against him as early as 1954, the Vatican and the order only began acknowledging Maciel’s abuse in 2006, and details about his most notorious misdeeds did not emerge until after his death in 2008.
They also pledge to lobby the Vatican to defrock those convicted of abuse, to cooperate with civil authorities, and to not impose confidentiality clauses in agreements unless requested by victims. They said Maciel gave huge contributions to the Vatican during the papacy of John Paul, who admired the Legionaries’ orthodoxy and ability to produce vocations.
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