Catholic hero now faces Vatican inquiry

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Mexican founder of secret order at centre of child abuse allegations

Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Sunday February 6, 2005
The Observer

It was nearly 50 years ago, but Jos¨¦ 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, pain, humiliation and resentment that Barba says once tormented him have faded over the years, but for the Catholic church the abuse he and others claim to have suffered threatens to erupt into a child abuse scandal that reaches the highest Vatican ranks.

Barba wants the church to recognise publicly the crimes he and many others claim Maciel committed. 'We want people to know that the founder of an institution so close to the Pope and who has written so much about chastity is in fact a pederast.'

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1406844,00.html

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1. Here's What the Jerk Looks Like

http://www.legionariesofchrist.org/articulos/articulo.phtml?se=67&ca=156&te=87&id=1093

[Warpy]

2. Gee, what a shock.

When are people gonna wake up and realize that all these moralists are just projecting their own rottenness onto the rest of us?

When are people going to realize that anyone who thunders all those "Thou shalt NOT" sentences at the world instead of the gentleness and tolerance of the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount is covering up a lot of stuff in his own life?

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3. Damn straight (no pun intended)

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that almost all pedophile priests brought to light are ultraconservative?