CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant
by BERNIE DAVIDOW
A report from the Associated Press on Friday casts considerable doubt on the ability of the troubled Legionaries of Christ, a worldwide Roman Catholic religious order with a seminary in Cheshire, to reform itself.
The story says, in part:
” … hopes are dwindling that the Vatican’s effort to radically reform the Legion has succeeded, raising the question of what Pope Francis will do with the once-powerful and wealthy order after the mandate of the papal envoy running it expires.”
The story comes only a week after The Courant’s Kelly Glista reported that an independent investigation had revealed “significant evidence” of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest who served at the order’s Cheshire seminary years ago.
David Clohessy, national director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is surprised by none of it. He released the following statement Friday in response to the AP report. The statement references the order’s disgraced founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado, who, after being accused of abusing boys in seminaries in Spain and Italy, resigned. Before he died, he was censured by Pope Bendict XVI.
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