ROME
Boston.com
By NICOLE WINFIELD / Associated Press / February 6, 2014
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order has elected a new superior and governing council for the first time since the Vatican took it over in 2010 amid revelations that its founder was a pedophile and a fraud.
But in a clear sign that the Vatican didn’t trust the Legion’s own choices, the Holy See itself appointed two comparatively reform-minded priests to serve on the order’s governing council, including the new No. 2.
The new general director is the Rev. Eduardo Robles Gil, a Mexican who was a longtime collaborator with the Legion’s disgraced late founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel. Legion priests who have left the order called him a ‘‘spiritual son’’ of Maciel and say his election shows no break from the order’s troubled past.
Robles Gil said Thursday he adopted as his own a statement issued by the Legion in which it distanced itself from Maciel, apologized to his victims, acknowledged its own problems and vowed to reform.
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