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...Also last week, Benedict approved a careful censure of the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, accused of sexually abusing minors: the 86-year-old Father Marcial Maciel Degollado will have to give up his public ministry, but no more action will be taken against him because of his age and poor health...
SANCTIONED. The Rev. Marcial Maciel, 86, powerful Mexican-born founder of the conservative Legionaries of Christ, one of the fastest-growing orders in the Roman Catholic Church; after an inquest into his alleged sexual abuse of seminarians dating to the 1940s, which he denies; in the first major abuse case to be handled by Pope Benedict XVI; in Vatican City. The Holy See declined to say if the allegations proved true, but called on Maciel to live a life of "prayer and repentance" and restricted him from publicly celebrating the sacraments...
London. But in spite of the book and the free cups of carefully brewed coffee available at the meeting, no one was certain that harmony would prevail. "Fifty percent of our delegates are pessimistic," said Brazilian Representative Georges Maciel, "and the rest feel no optimism." The reason was that no nation had a very clear idea of how to eliminate the present surplus or stop the flood of newly harvested coffee beans that continues to roll...
...giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful of convert Protestant ministers who were ordained in Europe as priests, even though they already had wives and children. Last month the Archbishop of Mariana in Brazil presided at the marriage of Pedro Maciel Vidigal, a former priest who was released from his vows by the Vatican, and is now a member of Congress...
Newspaperman José S. Maciel Filho, considered a Vargas mouthpiece, hinted at a longer-range reason: a big expansion of Federal power for postwar exploitation of Brazil's resources. Before the war ends, other Brazilian states may be "dismembered." Said Maciel Filho: "President Vargas is serenely reorganizing our structure. The creation of territories is . . . a preparation for . . . the [postwar] structure of Brazil...