IRELAND
RTE
[full video presentation]
The story of Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who, with the help of a small army of Irish recruits, built a global empire and cult of personality within the Catholic Church under five successive Popes, despite the Vatican having credible evidence that he was a paedophile, a drug addict and a manipulative fraudster.
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