Maciel, born in Michoacán 10 March 1920, was the founder of the Legions of Christ and Regnum Christi. The Legion is a religious congregation, Regnum Christi includes both priests and laymen. Both inculcate absolute, unquestioning fidelity to the ultimate leader (aka, Marcial Maciel) and to rat out any internal critics… sort of like Scientologists, or fascists.
The fascist tendencies in Marciel’s movements is reflected in their support for Franco’s Falangist Spain, and their later support for Mexican synarchism (and, the “confessional wing” of PAN). It’s no accident that Eric Prince, of Blackwater infamy, is one of the groups more enthusiastic backers
Several Roman Catholic Bishops in the United States have thrown the Legion — and Regnum Christi out of their dioceses, mostly because they see the two Marciel organizations as a “parallel church” which discourages its members from contact with “normal” Catholics. Several bishops — and not just in the United States — have also been bothered by overt elitism in these groups, an attitude seen as reactionary to modern church leaders.
Marciel encouraged his followers to target the well-heeled and well-connected (again, like the Scientologists) — with the goal of influencing public policy. With their strict obedience to superiors, these “elites” were the natural allies of people like Franco and Pinochet, and — with their unquestioning fidelity to their Fuhrer, were perfect servants to the Fascists. In Mexico, the Regnum Christi movement took a very sinister turn a few years ago, turning into youth gangs that beat up minorities (indigenous peoples, Protestants, gays) in PANista strongholds like Aguascalientes.
Marciel a favorite of Augustin Pinochet and Imelda Marcos was … alas poor Mexico… coddled by Pope John-Paul II. The late pope brought Marciel along on his three Mexican tours, permitted the two groups expansion and… apparently… turned a blind eye to what exactly Marciel’s “unquestioning fidelity” meant.
Marcial Maciel, was guilty of the sexual abuse of his seminarians, that he was/is addicted to a form of morphine called Dolantin (demerol, meperidine, isonipecaine, dolantol), and that he did indeed abuse his power to control all those beneath him in order to carry out his plans.
There is a whole counter-Legion movement, ReGAIN, for “recovering legionaries.” Their site, and Mexican (and Spanish, and Chilean) court documents detail the charges against Marciel, predatory sexual abuse of his seminarians being the most serious.
Former Hitler Youth Pope Benedict XVI — who one assumes knows a Fascist pervert when he sees one — stripped Marciel of his position, and order his retirement into a monastery to reflect on his past. I guess the Vatican doesn’t have suitable dungeons any more.
Marciel died yesterday. According to Catholic theology, one can’t say for certain that any sinner hasn’t been forgiven, but it’s a good bet Marcial Maciel Degollado hasn’t gone to eternal rest.
5 responses so far ↓
Jesse // February, 2, 2008 at 12:05 am
Yeah, ummmm…. God forgive you guys for your Communist, Radical Left, Secular agenda! In the meantime, go fuck yourselves!
Steve // February, 23, 2008 at 6:25 pm
This is the biggest load of crap I’ve ever read in my, life, but it all goes to show that the world just witnessed the death of a true Saint. Alphonsus Liguori, Francis of Asissi, etc. do these names ring a bell? Saints of the Church and founders of religious orders they were kicked out of due to lies and deceit. Fr. Maciel can now be mentioned in the same sentence as them. Not a word of evil left his mouth against the media who makes him look so aweful, like he does in this article. I was once a Legionary myself and he was a FATHER to me. He never abused anyone and took NO drugs. Believe what you want, but Fr. Maciel is finally at peace in the hands of our Lord.
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Razzin // March, 29, 2008 at 11:37 am
Yeap, this man died and was never behind bars. It was an injustice for all the young abused people he hurt.
Enda // March, 30, 2008 at 4:03 pm
As a member of Regum Christie, I have to point out a number of inaccuracies in your piece. The Legionaires of Christ and Regnum Christi swear fidelity to the person and office of the Pope and not the Director General.
We are required to espouse humility and remove elitism from our thinking and charater, the exact opposite of what you claim.
Your claim that this Charism organises gangs to beat up minorities is the worst piece of dishonest and immature fiction I have ever read. I run an ECYD group and the objective is to save the souls of the members and help them integrate the message and love of Jesus Christ to all people, whether they are a minority or not.
Your piece is a deliberate lie to attack a way of life that you do ot like. Catholicism teaches us to copy Jesus Christ ad give up the ways of the flesh and the world and give our lives back to Christ. This is the core message of the Legionaries and of Regnum Christie. You obviously dislike self sacrifice of any kind and want to distort this message to suit your own weeknesses. You are willing to embrace lies calumny and bitterness so that your ‘little head ‘can go on ruling your ‘big head.’
I will offer my own mediocre prayers that you and I can both be helped to greater things by Jesus Christ; that I will tell more truths and you will tell less lies.
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