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	First Changes Introduced to Legionaries The CathNews November 23, 2010 http://www.cathnewsasia.com/2010/11/24/legionaries-shake-up-begins/ Vatican legate Cardinal Velasio De Paolis has begun to introduce changes to the Legionaries of Christ as Pope Benedict acknowledged that the Vatican had been slow to act on the scandal in the order. The Legion said in a statement Tuesday that Cardinal Velasio De Paolis has limited some of the duties of its secretary general and also expanded the group’s governing general council and will appoint the two new members himself, the Washington Post reports. Pope Benedict appointed De Paolis to take over the Legion and profoundly reform it after a Vatican investigation concluded that its founder was a fraud who sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least three children. In a book being released Tuesday, Pope Benedict lamented that the Vatican took so long to realize the fraud but said that “by and large the congregation is sound.” Pope Benedict wrote that the Vatican acted “slowly and late” but said that the order has done good and should not be dissolved despite the double life of its founder, Father Marciel Maciel, who was discovered to have abused seminarians and fathered at least three children. “Unfortunately we addressed these things very slowly and late,” Benedict said in a book released Tuesday. “Somehow they were concealed very well, and only around the year 2000 did we have any concrete clues.”
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