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7 February 2020
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A trove of leaked documents reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 150 media partners provide an unprecedented view of global financial maneuvers that turn rent payments into big profits that are often hidden in accounts owned by shell companies controlled by anonymous investors.The investors revealed in the leaked documents include offshore trusts holding hundreds of millions of dollars for the Legion of Christ, a wealthy Roman Catholic order disgraced by an international pedophilia scandal. (English)
Rome, Italy, Nov 18, 2017 / 06:01 amReports about the Legion of Christ's offshore accounts date to the time of its disgraced founder and do not apply to the religious institute today, a spokesman has said."Today the Legion of Christ does not own offshore companies nor does it own resources in offshore companies," Legionaries of Christ spokesman Father Aaron Smith told Vatican Insider."The companies, in Bermuda, Panama, Jersey and Virgin Islands, to which the articles refer, were created at the time when Father Marcial Maciel was general manager and then were closed," he said. (English)
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These two trusts would come to hold nearly $300 million in assets devoted to the Legion of Christ, according to leaked records, at a time when victims of sexual abuse by its priests were seeking financial compensation from the order through lawsuits and through a commission overseen by the Vatican. (English)
25 years later, Legion of Christ sexual abuse victims seek reparations (English)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual abuse scandals by reporting 25 years ago Wednesday that eight men had accused the revered founder of the Legion of Christ religious order of raping and molesting them when they were boys preparing for the priesthood.It took a decade for the Vatican to sanction the founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, and another decade for the Legion to admit he was a serial pedophile who had violated at least 60 boys. In the meantime, the original whistleblowers suffered a defamation campaign by the Legion, which branded them liars bent on creating a conspiracy to hurt a man considered a living saint.As they marked the quarter-century anniversary of revelations that tarnished the legacy of St. John Paul II, three of Maciel’s victims are still seeking reparations from the Legion to compensate for the abuse they suffered and the “moral” harm done to their reputations by the order. (English)
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Leaked files reveal nearly $300 million stashed overseas for the Legion of Christ in wake of Vatican investigation. Millions were invested with a corporate landlord that evicted struggling U.S. tenants during pandemic. (English)
Scandal-ridden Legionaries of Christ named in Pandora Papers (English)
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Legion of Christ's deception, unearthed in new documents, indicates wider cover-up (English)
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual abuse scandals by reporting 25 years ago Wednesday that eight men had accused the revered founder of the Legion of Christ religious order of raping and molesting them when they were boys preparing for the priesthood.It took a decade for the Vatican to sanction the founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, and another decade for the Legion to admit he was a serial pedophile who had violated at least 60 boys. In the meantime, the original whistleblowers suffered a defamation campaign by the Legion, which branded them liars bent on creating a conspiracy to hurt a man considered a living saint. (English)
December 2019
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Father Marcial Maciel, the late founder of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ branch of the Roman Catholic Church, admitted to abusing at least 60 children over decades, according to an internal report published Saturday on ceroabusos.org. Maciel, who was accused of child abuse during his lifetime, died in 2008 at the age of 87. Of the other 32 pedophile priests, five are also dead, eight have left the priesthood, one has left the order and 18 are still members, the Legionaries said in a statement following an internal investigation into the order since its founding in 1941.The Legionaries of Christ order also said that over the last eight decades, 33 of its priests have sexually molested 175 minors. (English)
October 2021
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As part of the explosive Pandora Papers series, 1News can reveal a Roman Catholic order caught up in an international paedophilia scandal squirrelled nearly $300 million in assets in secret New Zealand trusts. (English)
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As Catholic order fought sex abuse claims, secret trusts devoted to it poured millions into American rental properties. Leaked files reveal nearly $300 million stashed overseas for the Legion of Christ in wake of Vatican investigation. Millions were invested with a corporate landlord that evicted struggling U.S. tenants during pandemic. (English)
2010
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On May 1, 2010, the Vatican announced that it would seize control of the Legion’s operations, the church’s most dramatic action against a Catholic order during the global abuse scandal. The Vatican would examine the Legion’s finances and possible sex crimes and establish a commission to compensate its victims. (English)
Legion of Christ
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- cawiki Legió de Crist
- dewiki Legionäre Christi
- enwiki Legionaries of Christ
- eswiki Legionarios de Cristo
- fiwiki Kristuksen legioona
- frwiki Légion du Christ
- huwiki Legio Christi
- itwiki Legionari di Cristo
- kowiki 그리스도의 레지오 수도회
- lawiki Congregatio Legionariorum Christi
- nlwiki Legionairs van Christus
- plwiki Legion Chrystusa
- pmswiki Legion ëd Crist
- ptwiki Legionários de Cristo