ROME
Life-After-RC
As the General Chapter looms before us, we turn to this brilliant description of the status quo to remind us of the prevailing winds in Rome:
The game of musical chairs with the superiors began when the LC could no longer pretend not to hear the clamor for leadership different from the hand-picked minions of Fr. Maciel. Lists were drawn up and the more notorious remnants of the old guard were shuffled around to make room for reliable, sometimes younger substitutes. Yet the supreme criterion for assuming any real role in the government of the Legion continues to be ‘loyalty.’ Non-dissenting, unquestioning fealty to the myth, the established story-line, the core convictions imparted over the years by Maciel to his followers. Any changes made up to now in the roster of superiors have been, at best, cosmetic.
So who are these Council Fathers who are helping to script a shiny new Legion that nevertheless still harbours in its bosom the methodology of the founder? One is Salvador Maciel, about whom a former member reminds us:
There are testimonies referring to events in the 1960s and the 1970s regarding Fr. Salvador Maciel (no relation to Marcial Maciel) who will participate in the General Chapter of the Legion of Christ. While the accusations concerning grave faults against chastity and actual sexual abuse are the most troubling, it is important to note that S. Maciel considered himself a faithful spy for Marcial Maciel in the 1950s during the Vatican Investigation of the Legion of the private life of Marcial Maciel.
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