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Vatican Disciplines Top Priest on Sexual Abuse Charges

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Posted on May 19, 2006

Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, 86, is the most prominent priest yet to be disciplined for allegedly molesting young members of the Church. But because of his advanced age, he’s getting only a slap on the wrist—a demand that he give up his ministry in favor of a quiet life of “prayer and penitence.”
Assuming the allegations are true, good riddance.


N.Y. Times:

ROME, May 19 ? The Vatican announced Friday that it had disciplined the most prominent priest to be accused of sexual abuse, taking a step that Pope John Paul II had long resisted.

Without addressing specific allegations, the Vatican statement said the priest, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, 86, the founder of the conservative Legionaries of Christ, had been asked to give up his public ministry in favor of a quiet life of “prayer and penitence.”

But in veering so close to a finding of guilt, the decision was widely seen as a defining moment for Pope Benedict XVI on a delicate issue for the Roman Catholic Church.

The statement said Father Maciel, who started the order in Mexico, would be spared an ecclesiastical trial because of his “advanced age” and “weak health.” The Vatican did not disclose the allegations, but at least nine men have accused him of molesting them as youthful seminarians.

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By Rod, May 19, 2006 at 11:28 pm Link to this comment
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It’s not really a slap in the wrist. He can’t perform any catholic ritual, he can’t give mass, etc. Pretty rough.

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