Revealed: Conceited Sanctity With Double Life. Christians Allays Fears Of 148 Churches Built By Sexual Abuse Prelate Victim Would Be Absconded

Father Marcial Maciel Degollado

Father Mpemchi and other accomplices of the late Father Marcial Maciel Degollado who kept a mistress and fathered a daughter – in short, had lived a double life for many years, keeping a mistress, using Legionary funds to support her, and fathering a daughter now reportedly more than 22 years old have started receiving sanctions for their deeds.

This news was received with shock by many in the order, there were many who wanted the legion to close down when the news first spread in 2006 and many who left.

Instead the Legion’s leadership distanced the Legion from its founder, but with great caution, knowing there has never been an order in the history of the Church that survived after repudiating its founder.

In 2006, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on May 19, after an investigation into the charges of sexual abuse made against Fr. Maciel by about 20 former seminarians, invited Fr. Maciel to retire to a life of “prayer and penitence” and not carry out his ministry in public. The accusations that Fr. Maciel had sexually abused seminarians first became public in 1997 in a report in The Hartford (Connecticut) Courant daily newspaper. In a letter to the paper, Fr. Maciel denied the allegations, saying: “In all cases they are defamations and falsities with no foundation whatsoever.”

But in 2006 Fr. Maciel stepped down and went into seclusion until his death in 2008.
The Legion in 2008  admitted that Fr. Maciel had a mistress, fathered a child and led a double life. Now who are these all these conceited sanctity with double lives deceiving? The Legionaries in 2008 had 3,250 male members, of whom 850 are priests; about 1,000 consecrated women; and about 60,000 members of Regnum Christi, the lay branch.