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	Report Links Late Priest’s Fund Raising to Church Inaction on Abuse Claims The Chronicle of Philanthropy April 22, 2010 http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Report-Links-Late-Priest-s/23374/ A prominent priest's fund-raising ability may have shielded him from church censure for alleged sexual abuse, National Public Radio reports, citing an investigation by a Catholic news organization. Father Marcial Maciel, who built the wealthy Legion of Christ order, weathered accusations of sexual abuse of seminarians from the 1950s until 2006, when Pope Benedict dismissed him from the ministry, according to a series of articles in the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper that covers the church. Father Maciel was "a genius at fund raising" who had high-ranking Vatican allies to whom he donated money as "a way of buying influence and protection," Jason Berry, the journalist who wrote the series, told NPR.
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