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Why we believe what we hear CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 23, 2009 ... Let's look at this from another angle. For decades we believed the LC/RC when they told us Maciel was a living saint, that he had never said no to God, that the victims were inventing allegations against him, that they were motivated by jealousy and anti-Catholic agendas. Only we know now that the ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/why-we-believe.html
Pure Fashion - Medium vs. Message CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 16, 2009 ... because the issue touches many of us concretely. Whereas few readers were personally abused by Maciel, and none to my knowledge have fathered his children, many readers are mothers who have volunteered with the Pure Fashion program, or parents to daughters who have participated in it. So Pure Fashion ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/pure-fashion--.html
Victims vanish from Legion's Spanish letter CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 10, 2009 Periodista Digital, which broke many of the recent allegations against Fr. Maciel, has now posted the Spanish version of the letter to RC faithful recently sent out in America and Germany. It is addressed to the RC in Spain. You can read the letter here . In reading through the Spanish version, ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/is-molesting-se.html
Fear is not a charism CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 8, 2009 ... who wants to associate openly with a liar, a fraud and a serial pervert? Would you let your daughter date Marcial Maciel? (What about your son?) What holds the system together, as far as I can tell from reader response, is fear. Fear of a system that crushes dissent. Fear of loss of ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/fear-is-not-a-c.html
On contacting victims - Is this how a family treats its children? CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 7, 2009 When news of Maciel's daughter first went public back in February, many LC/RC defenders likened the situation to a family discovering their father had kept a second family on the side. I can both understand and appreciate this analogy. In fact, it was the first thing that came to ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/is-this-how-a-f.html
Speak up! It's your responsibility as parent, not the Legion's CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 5, 2009 Over at Life After RC, reader MnM raises several concerns about the Fr. Maciel and the Legion, how children were victimized by him, and questions why the Holy See didn't intervene in 2006 with an apostolic visitation when children were potentially at risk. After a little back-and-forth between us, ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/its-your-respon.html
German RC territory follows U.S. letter to members CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 5, 2009 ... especially in this year which is marked by revelations about our deceased founder, Fr. Marciel Maciel, LC. The task and purpose of this letter is to give you an overview on how our community is dealing with this complex of issues. The Church is thinking today of Pope St. Gregory the Great. The ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/report---other.html
For whom the bell tolls... CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 3, 2009 ... cloud was foreseen by Fr. Damien Karras, a 30-year-veteran of the movement who defended Fr. Maciel up until news broke of his daughter. As Fr. Karras stated in a blog to Legion superiors last March: The tragic comedy of the past few months, with superiors running around telling and ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/for-whom-the-be.html
An encouraging admission by the Legion - REPORT CATHOLIC LIGHT - September 2, 2009 ... (like "How can we be sure Fr. Alvaro and other high-ranking Legion superiors didn't know while Maciel was still alive?") - but these questions can be resolved later. For now, I believe this is a significant step in the right direction, and we as Catholics need to encourage the Legion and Regnum ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/09/an-encouraging.html
Imagine your son a priest unto the order of Maciel CATHOLIC LIGHT - August 27, 2009 ... member of RC, [...] On the one hand, she is quite shocked about the revelations concerning Fr. Maciel and disappointed in the current LC leadership (at least at the top) for failing to come clean, but on the other hand she likes and admires the LC priests and RC members at the local level. As her ... http://catholiclight.stblogs.org/archives/2009/08/imagine-a-pries.html