MEXICO
National Catholic Reporter

Jason Berry | Feb. 8, 2016

ANALYSIS On Feb. 12, Pope Francis flies to Mexico, a vast land scarred by barbaric drug cartels and deep poverty that are pushing migrants to America — all front-burner issues for a papacy advocating mercy and justice.

Amid this, a new book, El Imperior Financierio de Los Legionarios de Cristo was published in December by Grijal-bo in Mexico City. There is no English translation as yet. Written by Raúl Olmos, an investigative journalist in Mexico, the book focuses on the Legionaries of Christ, a religious order founded by the late Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, a notorious pedophile dismissed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 to “a life of prayer and penitence.” The home base of the order is Mexico City, in the world’s second-largest Catholic country (after Brazil).

The investigation into the order began in 2004, ordered by Cardinal…