Papal files provide more details of abuse by Father Maciel

2024-07-21 15:22:02

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Newly released documents on Pope Pius XII shed new light on claims that the World War II-era pontiff did not speak regarding the Holocaust. But they also provide details of another controversial chapter in Vatican history: the scandal of the founder of the Legion of Christ.

Entire books have been written regarding the trove of documents that reached the Holy See in the 1940s and 1950s, showing that Holy See officials had evidence of Rev. Marshall’s questionable morals, drug use, financial recklessness and sexual abuse of young seminarians. .

Yet it took the Holy See more than half a century to sanction Maciel, and even longer to admit that he was a religious charlatan and charlatan who sexually abused his seminarians, fathered three children, and A secret religious organization was established, similar to a secret religious group.

The newly opened archive of Pius’s pontificate between 1939 and 1958 adds some new details to what is in the public domain, as it includes documents previously unavailable to the Vatican’s Secretariat of State.

They confirmed that Pius’s Vatican suppressed Maciel in 1956 and was prepared to take tougher measures once morest him, including removing him from the priesthood entirely, but Pius died in 1958, leaving Maciel’s supporters Exploiting a leadership vacuum to save his name and order.

In 2012, some of Maciel’s Mexican victims put more than 200 documents from 1940 to 2002 on the Internet, detailing Vatican evidence of Maciel’s depravity and the decades-long history of bishops, cardinals and And how the Pope turned a blind eye to it.

Now, new documents from the Vatican’s central government office are fleshing out the story, providing more details regarding who within the Vatican helped Maciel and who tried to take a harder line.

The draft is significant because it shows that in 1956, at least some in the Vatican took seriously reports reaching Rome that Marcil was sexually abusing his young seminarians and wanted to protect them and wanted to impose one of the penalties. However, it was not until 2006 that the Vatican finally sentenced Maciel to the relatively light sentence of “a lifetime of penance and prayer” for sodomizing a young recruit.

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