New priests reply: 'Why would anyone join the Legionaries?'
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If most Catholics were to compile a list of counter-intuitive things to do with one’s life these days, deciding to become a priest with the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order probably would finish fairly close to the top.
The once-powerful group became a poster child for the church’s sexual abuse crisis after revelations of misconduct by its founder, the late Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, which were denied by the Legionaries until Pope Benedict XVI sentenced the Mexican priest to a life of “prayer and penance” in 2006.
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