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	House of Cards By Steve Skojec Steve Skojec February 3, 2009 http://steveskojec.com/2009/02/03/house-of-cards/ I'm a little relieved today, but I'm even more angry. Yesterday morning, I received an email from someone I trust, indicating that a big, damaging story about the Legionaries of Christ was about to break. Something that went beyond the scandals we'd already heard. Patrick Madrid hinted about it on his blog. So did Thomas Peters. I started networking. Checking in with contacts who are closer to "the movement" than I am, since I parted ways with them 12 years ago this month. The information began trickling in. In an unusual twist, it was percolating up and out of the movement itself. The culture of deceit, denial, and diversion was finding itself compelled to be honest with its own members. This alone was damning evidence. Why? Because that's not how the Legion works. Let me back up a little bit. I'll never forget how two days after Thanksgiving in 1996, I was flown on less than 24 hours' notice, along with every other full-time worker in the Regnum Christi and Legion apostolates, back to the seminary in Cheshire, CT (we had just left from a retreat) to be briefed on the revelation of the first public accusations of sexual abuse against Fr. Maciel. Only we weren't told that. We really weren't told anything. We were simply told that something was coming, that it was categorically untrue, and that we were to deny it if asked.
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