The Legion of Christ: rich, ultra-conservative and secretive Roman Catholic order based on pedophilia and incest

"Maciel was a sexual criminal of epic proportions who gained the trust of John Paul II and created a movement that is as close to a cult as anything we've seen in the church," said author Jason Berry, one of two reporters who broke the Maciel story in 1997 and who directed a 2008 documentary about the priest called "Vows of Silence."

"But he got away with it for years and still in a sense he's getting away with it."

“If you get divorced and remarry you can’t take communion, but someone convicted of molesting children can hold mass for the rest of his life.”