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Fr. Jonathan Morris “sodomy isn’t sin” interview found. Listeners found the Fr. Jonathan Morris interview on the SiriusXM Radio gay channel from several years ago where he EXPLICITLY declares his belief that sodomy is not sin, and that you MUST “love” “homosexuality” and sodomitical acts as intrinsic to a person’s humanity. “Love the sinner, hate the sin” is WRONG! He knows because his sodomite sister told him so!Link here. The whole thing is only 24 minutes long. The we have to love sin part starts at 10:35. Morris says that he “used to believe” “that homosexual sex is not in...

<p>Thomas Williams, the onetime public face of the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order who left the priesthood after admitting he fathered a child, is getting married this weekend to the child's mother, The Associated Press has learned. The bride is the daughter of former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon, one of Pope Francis' top advisers.</p>

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) Documents detailing the dubious fundraising practices of a disgraced Roman Catholic religious order called the Legion of Christ were released to the public Friday, showing how the organization took control of an elderly woman's finances and persuaded her to bequeath it $60 million.

Maciel's offenses. The system of power that covered up his disgraceful life. The Vatican authorities are making accusations. And dictating the agenda for reconstruction. With full powers entrusted to a cardinal delegated by the pope by Sandro Magister ROME, May 3, 2010 – The statement released two days ago by the Holy See regarding the Legionaries of Christ is extremely significant. It is reproduced in its entirety further below, and should be read from start to finish. But a thorough understanding of it requires some explanatory notes. THE GENESIS OF THE STATEMENT The five bishops who made the apostolic visit...

...Imagine you are a 20 year old College student at Southern Catholic College. Even though the school was only in its infancy, when it was purchased by the Legion of Christ your parents presumed it was going to be placed on solid financial ground. Maybe they were concerned that the Legion was under a cloud, being investigated by the Holy See because of the duplicity, deceit, and evil acts perpetrated by its founder... It is Easter Week and you are still celebrating the Octave of the central mystery of the Christian faith and the source of our Hope. ... You...

In May 2006, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) made public its decision to “invite” Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the religious order the Legion of Christ and the lay movement Regnum Christi, to “a reserved life of penitence and prayer, relinquishing any form of public ministry.” The CDF decision was approved by Pope Benedict XVI. From that date forward, both before and after Fr. Maciel’s death in 2008, senior officials of the Holy See have insisted that this action was intended to “save the Legion and Regnum Christi,” as one such official put it to me.Assuming,...

December 1, 2008 Father Euteneuer: Legion has 'lost it' By Matt C. Abbott In addition to Father James Farfaglia, Father Tom Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, has weighed in on National Catholic Register executive editor Tom Hoopes' take on the election results. Writes Father Euteneuer: The Legion of Christ priest who defended Sean Hannity's dissent on birth control on Fox News last year was bad enough, but the editorial in the National Catholic Register after the election shows that the Legionaries have allowed another misguided agent to speak in their name and on their watch. They are now officially...

Someone is lying ... but is it the 100 alleged abuse victims or Fr. Maciel? Brian Mershon Brian Mershon August 7, 2006 From the August 10 edition of The Wanderer Since the official May 19 statement from the Holy See suspending Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of Christ, from all public ministry, more information has become available to shed light on the case from additional sources. The following letter and interview, a new charge of sexual abuse against Fr. Maciel, is an exclusive to The Wanderer. Francisco Gonzalez-Parga, a former priest and seminarian with the Legionaries of Christ...

The Legionaries of Christ: Fr. Maciel's Trial Draws Nearer The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has begun a preliminary investigation and has interviewed dozens of new witnesses – who have filled pages with new accusations by Sandro Magister ROMA, May 20, 2005 – Last April 2, just as John Paul II was dying in Rome, in New York the promoter of justice for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Charles J. Scicluna, from Malta, was interviewing Paul Lennon, the former headmaster of a "School of Faith" run by the Legionaries of Christ. Mr. Lennon, who...

Editor’s Note: The author wishes it to be known that while he did not have direct contact with the Legion regarding the Maciel case, he was employed in a capacity in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s that brought him in intimate contact with members of the Legion of Christ’s lay movement, Regnum Christi, and has been familiar with the accusations detailed below for some time—both as matters reported in the press, and as matters discussed among members of Regnum Christi and responded to by the Legion itself. The elevation of Cardinal Ratzinger to the Pontificate of the Roman Catholic...

It was nearly 50 years ago, but José Barba winces as he remembers Father Marcial Maciel, founder and icon of the Legion of Christ, the secretive Roman Catholic order said to be second only in papal influence to Opus Dei. 'Oh, I felt so very unhappy,' he said, after describing one incident just before the priest said Mass one Easter Sunday. 'I wanted to run, but he was everything to us. He was Our Father and we thought he was a saint. I went to my room and I cried and cried, and then I went to Mass.' The fear,...