ROME
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The General Chapter has elected Eduardo Robles Gil as its new general director. “We are grieved that many victims and other affected persons have waited so long in vain for an apology and an act of reconciliation on the part of Fr. Maciel. Today, we would like to issue that apology”
GIACOMO GALEAZZI
VATICAN CITY
It’s white smoke for the Legion. Fr. Eduardo Robles Gil was has been elected general director of the Legion of Christ, the religious order which the Holy See placed under the administration of an external commissioner following the sex abuse scandals involving its founder Marcial Maciel Degollado.
The Legion held an Extraordinary General Chapter in Rome, chaired by pontifical representative Velasio De Paolis, electing Gil and all other members of the Legion’s central government.
The official communiqué states that “since the Chapter is the highest internal authority that represents the whole Congregation, it seems necessary for us to take a stance regarding the significant events that have occurred in the past nine years.” “With this, we want to define conclusively the posture of our Congregation with respect to the behavior of Fr. Marcial Maciel and his role as founder, in continuity with the decisions of the Holy See and the previous declaration of all the major superiors of the Legion of Christ.”
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