Italian journalist and Vatican specialist Sandro Magister today rounds up varying views on the recent posthumous revelations that the founder of the Legion of Christ, Father Marcial Maciel (pictured), lived a double life.
Magister says the order is "in danger of collapse."
OSV president and publisher Greg Erlandson addressed the scandal in a column in our Feb. 22 issue, and draws three important lessons from the fallout. Read it here.
The OSV Daily Take blog interviewed a leading American priest member of the Legion in the immediate aftermath of the revelations. See his answers to tough questions here.
The most comprehensive archive of links to this whole story is at AmericanPapist.com, Thomas Peter's blog.
(Photo chiesa.espresso.it)
