PROVIDENCE (RI)
Courthouse News Service
By IULIA FILIP
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (CN) – The Legionaries of Christ used undue influence to persuade a dying man to leave it $1 million in his will, the late man’s son claims in Federal Court.
Paul Chu, of Connecticut, sued the Legion of Christ aka The Legionaries of Christ, several affiliated entities, and Grupo Integer, a Mexican holding company that manages the order’s donations. Chu sued individually and as executor of the Estate of James Boa-Teh Chu.
Chu claims that while the Legionaries were soliciting his late father for donations, “the Order was being investigated by the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy in Rome for grave improprieties within the Order.”
According to the order’s website, “the Legionaries of Christ are a religious Congregation of priests, of pontifical rite, founded in 1941 in Mexico.” The congregation includes three bishops, 920 priests and more than 2,000 novices, candidates and seminarians in 22 countries.
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