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	Vatican to Inspect Catholic Order after Scandal Associated Press March 31, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5cgvEMk5AotFOUgw12GBwehXUjgD9792V9O2 VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican says it is sending a team of inspectors to the institutions of the Legionaries of Christ after the conservative Roman Catholic order disclosed that its late founder had had a mistress and fathered a child. The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, announced the Apostolic visitation in a letter to the head of the order, the Rev. Alvaro Corcuera, that was posted Tuesday on the Legionaries Web site. Bertone said the Vatican was stepping in to help the order overcome its "current difficulties." The Legionaries were much admired by the late Pope John Paul II, even though their founder, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, was long dogged by allegations he sexually abused seminarians. The Vatican disciplined Maciel in 2006. He died in 2008.
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