I feel bad for the guys, honestly, but I thin that accountability and openness is really the best way to proceed–that’s certainly how the Legion itself runs its own seminaries anyways.  The good have nothing to hide, especially not within the family.  I don’t know if the whole world needs to know if there were dirtier details, but I think our whole Church would benefit from a strengthened, throughoughly cleaned LC.  More here:

“We have testimonies that there have been other Legionaries who followed Maciel’s example,” said Jose Barba, the legal representative of eight former Legionaries who started court proceedings against Maciel in 1998. “The ramifications of the problem exist throughout the Legionaries of Christ,” he added.

Barba, who says he was abused by Maciel when he was in the order as a teenager training to be a priest, said he expected the investigation would take months.

“What they have to investigate is to what extent the evil, the gangrene was spread through the Legionaries of Christ and didn’t end just because Father Maciel died,” Barba said.