The National Catholic Reporter reflects on its long and ultimately successful campaign to hold Legion of Christ founder, Father Marcial Maciel, responsible for a long history of sexual abuse. Others were responsible as well:
For all of the commendable achievements of Pope John Paul II, his blindness to this cancer within the church and his unwillingness until the last years of his long reign to understand the urgency of the problem will be seen as serious flaws of his tenure. His inaction sent signals that he both tolerated and encouraged the debilitating culture of deceit. . ."
So, in the face of all this-- why does the DaVinci Code even merit a ripple on the controversy pond?
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NCR is implicating Fr. Maciel without a trial. The fruit that has come forth from the Legionaires of Christ organization that he founded is evidence of some virtues in the man from his Baptism. This will not have any ramifications for Pope John Paul II's pontificate, but there wasn't enough evidence. Blaspheming the Son of God by saying that He isn't divine when the world has evidence that He was, is different than the case with Fr. Maciel where there evidence has not been made public. The National Catholic Reporter is overstepping themselves in the editorial.
Check Andrew Sullivan for a thorough treatment of Maciel et. al. As always, there are plenty of opinions to go 'round.
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