Marcial Maciel


Marcial Maciel Degollado was a Mexican Catholic priest who founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement, serving as general director of the Legion from 1941 to 2005. He was respected throughout his career as the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church and as a prolific recruiter of new seminarians. Late in his life, Maciel was revealed to have sexually abused boys and young men and maintained relationships with at least two women, fathering as many as six natural children. He allegedly abused two of these.

Maciel was born in Cotija, Michoacn, Mexico, to a family with strong connections to the Catholic Church. Numerous relatives were priests in the Church. He had a troubled youth. Maciel is the grandnephew of Bishop Rafael Guzar Valencia, who was canonized as a Mexican saint in 2007. There has been speculation that conduct by Maciel at agecontributed to the death of this great uncle, who had a heart attack. According to an investigative report

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