annalen en valse herinneringen

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Wie die anonymus dan ook moge zijn geweest, waren me dat effe cadeautjes!

Paulo Juntas Wikipedia 

Dat geloof je zelf toch zeker ook niet?

Personal Bill of Rights 
I have the right to freedom of speech
I have the right to be heard
I have the right to be respected
I have the right to accept and own my own power
I have the right to not disclose unless I am comfortable
I have the right to feel my emotions
I have the right to say no
 I have the right to challenge the status quo
 I have the right to ask questions
I have the right to be me
I have the right to own my own ideas
I have the right to my values and beliefs
I have the right to laugh

Dr. Alicia A. Dunlop, Toronto

Lastig hoor, zoń  unfortunately verwerkingsfout van Google  wanneer je Dunlop´s Personal Bill of Rights plakt

Moet  je naar een of ander gebruikersforum  het allemaal weer uitzoeken terugzetten, toch mooi ruim 1 1/2 uur verder

Mandarijnen en zonneschijn

Luctor et emergo; these boots are made for walking

paperscissorsfrock

¨Het is veel mooier dan je denkt
als je denkt
is het nog veel mooier ¨

Wimpie


Maar dan moet er wel geluisterd worden!

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Alpha Papa Tango Deetman: ¨mevrouw de voorzitter wat is er toch met onze samenleving aan de hand?¨ en zijn keffertje

Matt 19:6  (onder voorbehoud toestemming)

Onderwerp:	net terug en nu wil ik het weten ook
Datum:	Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:09:18 +0100
Van:      *
Aan:	Bert Smeets

Hoi Bert,

Wat heb jij in vredesnaam uitgespookt met die Heer Kramers???

* Mijn (eigen) naam tbv mijn privacy hier weggehaald 

foto Huizer Museum

Dat snoert je 

Ik ruik mensenvlees; head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith above all we have to clarify that we are not misogynists, we don't want to gobble up a woman a day!¨

Wikipedia

punchline

deliver us from evil hofnarretje van de week

HIA BBC

´t Is met al die Ieren Australiërs en Verwegistan toch effe schrikken van die Amerikanen

BishopAccountability.org – Documenting the Abuse Crisis

¨If you are ready to talk, we are ready to listen¨ $126m extra for child abuse commission

CLAN

2-9-2014

The government's decision to give an extra $126 million and a two-year extension to the royal commission into child sex abuse will allow more survivors to tell their stories, advocates say.

Attorney-General George Brandis on Tuesday announced the government would allocate the extra funds needed by the commission to complete its historic inquiry.

Senator Brandis also announced he had been asked to extend the commission's reporting deadline to December 15, 2017.
In its interim report in June, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse said it would need a two-year extension on its 2015 deadline and $104 million to finish its work.

Leonie Sheedy, chief executive of CLAN, an advocacy and support network for people abused while in care, has welcomed the news.
"It will alleviate the stress for people who were worrying they would not get to tell their stories" Ms Sheedy she told AAP.

The commission had said if it did not get the time and money it needed it would have to stop scheduling private sessions with abuse survivors, thousands of whom have come forward.
The commission builds its public hearings on the evidence given in private sessions.
"It really does mean that a lot more people will come forward to tell their stories" Ms Sheedy said.

Francis Sullivan, chief executive of the Truth Justice and Healing Council - the body representing the Catholic Church at the commission - said it was great news for abuse survivors.

"It is also good news for the institutions which are being investigated, including the Catholic Church, because it is only after the truth is fully exposed and the history fully revealed that we will be able to work towards rebuilding trust and credibility in the community," Mr Sullivan said in a statement.

He said governments around Australia must now back the work of the Royal Commission and get behind its recommendations to "ensure Australia has the world's safest child protection laws and most effective redress scheme."

Senator Brandis said it was anticipated an additional 30 public hearings, 3000 private sessions and dozens of research projects will be possible with the extra time and funding, which now totals $500 million.
He said he had been assured by commission chair Justice Peter McClellan the extra time would be sufficient to complete the vital work.

Royal Commission publishes two research reports

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has today published two research reports by the Australian Institute of Criminology:

• History of child sexual abuse offences in Australia
• Brief review of contemporary sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia

Royal Commission CEO Philip Reed said the results of this research provide important reference material for the Royal Commission and other organisations carrying out work in this area.

“The first report outlines significant socio-political developments in respect of child sexual abuse which will assist the Royal Commission’s understanding of the way child sexual abuse legislation has developed in Australia.

“The second report provides an overview of the offences with which a person who sexually abuses a child in an institutional setting may be charged with as at the end of 2013.

“Both of these reports will contribute to the Royal Commission’s understanding of the historical context of child sexual abuse in Australia, and the development of relevant legislation.

“While the findings and opinions contained in Royal Commission research reports are those of the authors and not the Royal Commission, the Royal Commission will use the results to inform its work and the development of final recommendations,” he said.

A summary of both reports is available below, the full reports can be read on the Royal Commission website: http://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/research/published-research

Key findings of reports
History of child sexual abuse offences in Australia

• The report provides an overview of the socio-political factors and events that have influenced the development of Australia’s child sexual abuse legislation from 1788-2013.
• The AIC concludes that during this period child sexual abuse has been marginalised, denied, ‘discovered’ and ‘rediscovered’.
• The report also provides an overview of the development of legislation during the period 1950-2013 in the nine Australian jurisdictions
• Key developments in relevant legislation during this period which are discussed in detail in the report include:
  • the decriminalisation of homosexual acts between consenting males
  • the removal of gendered language from legislation to enable the law to deal with matters involving male victims, female offenders and same sex offences
  • broadening the definition of sexual intercourse
  • introduction of specific legislation relating to child pornography
  • introduction of mandatory reporting laws.

Brief review of contemporary sexual offence and child sexual abuse legislation in Australia

• The report provides an overview of the offences that an individual who sexually abuses a child in an institutional setting may be charged with in the nine Australian jurisdictions.
• These include contact and non-contact sexual offences, child pornography offences and offences for which institutions and/or their representatives that were aware of child sexual abuse may be charged.
• The AIC report provides information for each of the identified offences including:
  • the location of the offence in the respective state or territory's legislation
  • the age of the victim (where relevant)
  • aggravating factors
  • the maximum penalty.

UN condemns Vatican child abuse cover-up UN demands that all clergy known, or suspected to be, child abusers be removed from their posts immediately. Deetman IV

Vraag 4:
Welke verantwoordelijkheden neemt de overheid over van de ouders wanneer een kind uit huis wordt geplaatst?

Antwoord:
Tenzij er sprake is van ontheffing of ontzetting uit het ouderlijk gezag, zijn ouders te allen tijde – ook bij een ots of een uithuisplaatsing – verantwoordelijk voor de opvoeding van hun kinderen. Bij een uithuisplaatsing neemt de overheid niet de  verantwoordelijkheid voor de opvoeding over. Door de maatregel van ondertoezichtstelling met een uithuisplaatsing moeten de ouders wel de inmenging van een gezinsvoogd accepteren bij de opvoeding van hun kind.
Zoals hierboven in de antwoorden op de vragen 1 en 3 is aangegeven, moet de overheid ervoor zorgen dat alle betrokkenen (waaronder de gezinsvoogden, de pleegzorgwerkers en zorgaanbieders die nauw bij het gezin betrokken zijn) door goede wet- en regelgeving, heldere afspraken, goede opleidingen en verdere professionalisering van de jeugdsector in staat worden gesteld om de uitvoering van de ots en uithuisplaatsing in het belang van het kind zo goed mogelijk uit te voeren en gezin hierbij te ondersteunen. Dit moet ertoe leiden dat een uithuisplaatsing zo snel als dit verantwoord is, kan worden beëindigd en het gezin – zonodig ondersteund door het sociale netwerk en andere hulpverlening- zonder overheidsmaatregel zelf weer alle verantwoordelijkheden voor het onbedreigd opgroeien van het kind op zich kan nemen.

Kinderen niet meteen terug naar ‘jihadgangers’
Als de voor jihadplannen gearresteerde ouders uit Huizen worden vrijgelaten, krijgen zij hun kinderen niet meteen terug. De Raad voor de Kinderbescherming (RvK) wil dan eerst onderzoeken of de kinderen veilig zijn bij hun ouders, ook als het OM besluit niet verder te vervolgen.

Een woordvoerder van de RvK: “Nu wij erbij zijn betrokken maken we onze

eigen afwegingen”.

Daartoe zal de Raad onder meer nagaan “of de kinderen iets hebben meegekregen van de ideeën van de ouders over het kalifaat”, aldus de woordvoerder. “We willen weten hoe ouders bij wie dit gedachtegoed leeft, de veiligheid van hun kinderen kunnen garanderen.”



Kusje, met de groeten van mijn  grootmoeder

En die van Ana Solidaridad natuurlijk



Misschien toch wel handig als de nederlandse kinderbescherming voortaan even op VN niveau overleegt indien zij eigenmachtig Internationale Mensen/Kinderrechtenverdragen wijzigt en de noodzaak verdragspartners uit te breiden?
Zou wel ´s een berg lijken én leipen kunnen schelen !

Met speciale dank namens de ´s werelds diplomatent en de ouders van vermoordde gijzelaars en andere inwoners van schilderswijken

Historical abuse inquiry hearing evidence from Australia ‘Shocking’ evidence of abuse children allegedly suffered won’t be ‘swept under carpet’

Irish Times
1-9-2014

The Northern Ireland inquiry into historical institutional abuse in the coming weeks will hear “shocking” evidence of alleged abuse against children who were transported to Australia, the inquiry chairman Sir Anthony Hart said today.

In the next three weeks the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry will hear, mostly by video-link, evidence from 50 individuals who are now resident in Australia and were former residents of institutions in Northern Ireland.

Sir Anthony Hart at Banbridge court house today recounted how the 50 men and women were part of a group of approximately 130 children who were sent to Australia as part of a child migration programme between 1922 and 1995.

The inquiry is investigating allegations of child abuse in institutions run by the Catholic Church and Northern Ireland state from 1922 to 1995. This includes allegations by those who were part of the migration scheme.

Sir Anthony Hart explained that the inquiry could not investigate any allegations of abuse in Australia that the witnesses will make in the coming weeks, as the inquiry’s term of reference relates solely to institutions in Northern Ireland. However, this information would not be “swept under the carpet” and the authorities in Australia would be notified of any allegations, he said.

“In their witness statements many of those who will give evidence describe their experiences after they arrived in Australia in shocking terms, setting out in graphic detail their descriptions of the severe hardships, and grave sexual and physical violence, to which they say they were subjected as children in the institutions to which they were sent in Australia,” said Sir Anthony.

“However, I have to emphasise that this Inquiry is limited to what happened to children in institutions in Northern Ireland. By the Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly under which we operate, and our terms of reference, this inquiry does not have the power to investigate what happened to those child migrants in those Australian institutions,” he explained.

“That does not mean that their accounts of their experiences in Australia will be swept under the carpet. I want to assure them that will not be the case. Their evidence will be given in public, either in person or through their statements, and all of the evidence will be published on our inquiry website,” added Sir Anthony.

“At the conclusion of this module arrangements will be made to furnish these statements to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse which is presently carrying on its work in Australia,” he said.

“That will ensure that these matters are drawn to its attention, and I urge any of the applicants to this inquiry, and indeed anyone who has had a similar experience who may be following the work of this Inquiry, to contact the Royal Commission in Australia if they have not already done so.”

Sir Anthony said three weeks has been set aside for this module of the inquiry dealing with children sent to Australia. “We expect that all but three of the witnesses who give evidence will do so by live-link from Australia, while others who have made statements will have those statements read out to the inquiry.”

The Historical Abuse Inquiry is investigating alleged abuse of children in 13 institutions.

Morgen- en zeesterren

en die mosselman uit Schevingen

Dank U voor de mooiste monsters ter wereld!

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the good the bad and the ugly Catholics, keep away, lest you hear what you ought not Mary McAleese geaccepteerd in Boston, geweigerd in Australië

                                                                 

Vatican considers: How hard do bishops have to listen?

Joshua J. McElwee  |  Jun. 30, 2014

Australian and Catholics know how to enjoy themselves

As the world's Catholic bishops 
prepare for an October global meeting at the Vatican on family life issues, they face one central and disputed question: How much should the experiences and opinions of lay Catholics influence their discussions?

Listen too closely to laypeople, some say, and you run the risk of turning church teaching into a sort of popularity contest.

Ignore their experiences, others say, and you flirt with alienation from the faith as known by Catholics worldwide -- particularly for bishops who prefer not to talk about sometimes controversial subjects like divorce and remarriage or use of birth control.

The church tries to solve that dilemma with the sensus fidei, a notion expressed particularly during the Second Vatican Council that Catholic believers have an innate ability to identify what the faith is.

Or, as theologian Bradford Hinze puts it: That Catholics have "an instinct ... that through the gift of baptism, that through the gift of faith, we are able to recognize the truth when it's proclaimed."

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The Sidney Morning Herald
31-8-2014

Damien Murphy

The former president of Ireland Mary McAleese will deliver the Rosemary Goldie Lecture at Sydney Town Hall on Sunday week but local Catholics, it seems, are being discouraged from attending.

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The Catholic Weekly newspaper refused to take advertisements for the lecture which honours an Australian Catholic theologian who became the first woman to serve in an executive role in the Roman Curia.

Professor McAleese had criticised the former Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell for his "boy's club" appointment of a Sydney colleague to a key position in the Vatican.

She had also openly attacked Rome over its refusal to ordain women and said it should rethink it stance on homosexuality, saying the issue was "not so much the elephant in the room but a herd of elephants" for the church.

The Irish Echo, Australia's Irish newspaper, ran The Catholic Weekly's refusal to run the McAleese advertisements as a front-page story this week.

The story claimed the advertisements were refused because Professor McAleese's views did not accord with the Church.

The editor of The Catholic Weekly, Peter Rosengren, took full responsibility for refusing the advertisement.

"As the editor of The Catholic Weekly I made the decision to decline the advertisement," he said.

"As the editor of The Catholic Weekly I also endorse all the teaching of the Catholic Church – including those on the nature of  marriage and the priesthood."

Speaking out against tradition often provokes disagreement, but adding to the confusion caused by the newspaper's stand is the fact that a former auxiliary bishop of Sydney, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, will introduce Professor McAleese when she takes the stage.  

The Archdiocese of Sydney had recently rebuked Professor McAleese for her attack of Cardinal Pell, now Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy in Vatican City, for his appointment of Sydney archdiocese business manager, Danny Casey, to his Rome office.

Professor McAleese said the position had not been openly advertised and it looked like "the gravitational pull of the old boys' club".

The former Irish head of state is in Sydney as the guest of the Australian Catholic think-tank, Catalyst for Renewal.

The organisation exists to promotes open exchanges among Catholics emerging from the spirit of the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

The Rosemary Goldie lecture is part of the Catalyst for Renewal's 20th anniversary program.

Mr Kevin Grant, Catalyst for Renewal president, said he had been saddened by the newspaper's decision.

Professor McAleese, who was the eighth president of Ireland from 1997 to 2011, will also be guest of honour at a dinner to raise funds for the UNSW Chair of Modern Irish Studies. 

Despite banning advertisements about the speech, Mr Rosengren said he looked forward to attending Professor McAleese's talk and writing an editorial about it. 

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Zuster Zwart; 186 Magdalene survivors now receiving redress payments; vrijheid geef je door the old boys network

Irish Examiner

30-8-2014 

Noel Baker

Some 186 survivors of the Magdalene laundries are now receiving payments under the Government’s new redress scheme.

Figures provided by the Department of Social Protection show that since the weekly payments commenced in June, 186 women are now receiving the payment, which is one of the steps recommended in the Magdalene Commission Report, also known as the Quirke Report.

The figures also reveal that in the year to August 19, €387,785 had been paid to Magdalene Survivors living overseas — and €366,826 of that amount was paid in the one month period to August 19.

Recipients living overseas receive a monthly payment, while those living in Ireland receive it weekly.

The level of the payment due is calculated based on current Department of Social Protection payments, if applicable, to ensure that women under the age of 66 will receive a payment of no less than €100 per week, while women aged 66 or over will receive a payment of no less than €230.30 per week.

According to the department: “There are 49 of these women living abroad and payments made to overseas accounts are paid monthly totalling €38,710.24.

“The remaining 137 women are living in Ireland and they receive weekly payments totalling €11,753.96 per week.”

A spokesperson for the Department said the amount paid out so far includes arrears.

According to Claire McGettrick, co-founder of Adoption Rights Alliance and Justice for Magdalenes Research, not all women entitled to a payment have applied for one and some that have accepted less than they might be entitled to.

“The problem is the burden of proof seems to be on the women to prove they were there [in the laundries],” she said.

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vlucht gevaar ¿ prawdopodobieństwo ucieczki ? do i look like a truckdriver ¿

Wymiar sprawiedliwości Dominikany wszczął postępowanie karne w sprawie pedofilii, o którą oskarżany jest były nuncjusz w tym kraju arcybiskup Józef Wesołowski - podała włoska agencja prasowa ANSA powołując się na tamtejsze media.

Prokuratura w Santo Domingo złożyła już w sądzie dokumentację z zarzutami stawianymi arcybiskupowi Wesołowskiemu.

Decyzja o postępowaniu w sprawie czynów popełnionych w czasie pełnienia przez niego misji to rezultat informacji, jakie napłynęły w poniedziałek z Watykanu, który ogłosił, że były nuncjusz nie ma już immunitetu dyplomatycznego i może zostać osądzony przez inne wymiary sprawiedliwości.

Obecnie za Spiżową Bramą toczy się postępowanie kanoniczne przeciwko byłemu nuncjuszowi, a wkrótce ma rozpocząć się też jego proces karny przed trybunałem Państwa Watykańskiego. Abp Wesołowski odwołał się ostatnio od kary kościelnej pierwszej instancji o wydaleniu go ze stanu kapłańskiego.

Verzekering ooievaartje Zuster Zwart; Je wiegie was geen stijfselkissie

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Haagse Beeldbank

waar staan we nu 

namens de burgemeester

Boelebout

soap opera about Miriam from Magdala

Mujer caminando, Tamayo

Jason Barry

NCR

Aug. 26, 2014

The scandal-battered Legionaries of Christ, still facing the unresolved consequences of a disgraced founder, may be seeing a turn in their fortunes with the development of the Magdala Center at the Sea of Galilee in the Holy Land. The order is conducting a major fundraising drive to cover the projected $100 million cost.

The complex, with newly discovered ruins of a synagogue Jesus may have visited, will contain an archaeological park, women's institute, media center and a luxury hotel the Legion will own. Eduardo Guerra, the center's assistant director, said that the Legion has raised $40 million from benefactors toward the finished work.

Whether the center can overcome its founder's reputation and the fallout from the prolonged scandal is an open question. While the order is still reeling from revelations that its founder, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, was a sexual predator, abusing young seminarians and living a double life that included fathering three children by two women from Mexico, he still has his loyalists.

A booklet intended to promote the new center, Magdala: God Really Loves Women, contains material demonstrating Maciel's posthumous hold on certain top-rank Legionaries. The booklet compares Maciel to Mary Magdalene and portrays the Legion founder as harshly judged. In the quotation from the text that follows, the speaker is Fr. Juan María Solana, who heads the Magdala project:

The priest speaks his heart: "Marcial Maciel's initials are also MM, just like Mary Magdalene. She had a problematic past before her deliverance, so there's a parallel. Our world has double standards when it comes to morals. Some people have a formal, public display and then the real life they live behind the scenes.

"But when we accuse someone else and we are quick to stone him, we must remember that we all have problems and defects. With modern communications so out of control, it is easy to kill someone's reputation without even investigating about the truth. We should be quieter and less condemning."

In Connecticut, the Legion has been sued by Maciel's son and the son's half-brother, alleging that Maciel sexually abused them as teenagers in America.

Separate Rhode Island lawsuits seek to recover millions of dollars from the wills of two elderly Catholics who, relatives allege, were defrauded by Legion fundraising practices that promoted Maciel as a saintly figure.

Solana, director of the Magdala Center project, is a native of Mexico with many years' experience at Legion headquarters in Rome. He appears on the center's website in a video fundraising appeal. The order's lay wing, Regnum Christi, worked closely with Solana and Fr. Eamon Kelly, an Irish Legionary, to cultivate donors for this project.

After Legion superiors' 2009 disclosure that Maciel had children and the order's admission that he had abused seminarians, dozens of priests left the order. The donor base was imperiled. But the Legion was already shifting its fundraising focus to Holy Land pilgrimages, courting donors for the Magdala Center. Solana purchased land there before the discovery of the religious ruins that have now given it a high profile.

In a striking contrast to the $40 million the Legion claims to have invested at Galilee, the order took a $16 million loss on the sale of its Thornwood, N.Y., center, once envisioned as the site of a college campus. The Legion sold the property to Efekta IA Inc., a Boston-based affiliate of EF Academy International Boarding Schools, for $17 million, according to the Westchester County Business Journal.

"The Thornwood property was sold at a fire-sale price. Properties everywhere are being sold, but the Legion is still going ahead with big projects in Israel," Fr. Peter Byrne, a Legionary in Dublin, told NCR. "How can they be expanding?" he asked. Byrne is leaving the order to join the diocesan clergy.

The new venture in Israel is an ambitious undertaking for an order facing so much legal action and in such internal chaos that a Jesuit canon lawyer, Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, was recently appointed as a special adviser to the order. The Legion has yet to receive approval from Pope Francis for reworked constitutions, which were submitted to the pope months ago.

Meanwhile, the downsizing in other parts of the world has been extensive. The Legion has:

• Sold a 10-acre portion of its 25-acre center in Orange, Conn., the site of the order's original headquarters in America, for $800,000.
• Closed the University of Sacramento in July 2011 for lack of funds. When the school opened in California in 2005, the order planned for it to become its flagship college in America.
• Closed Gateway Academy, a prep school outside St. Louis, at the end of the 2011 school year, citing "diminished financial capacity of the Legion of Christ."
• Closed seminaries in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Canada, two novitiates in Ireland and another in Spain, because of funding problems and people leaving the Legion and Regnum Christi, according to a March 23, 2014 report in the Mexican daily Milenio.
• Sold six properties in Spain, according to Milenio, and two schools north of Madrid merged to operate on the same campus.

For a religious order with global reach, the Legion is small. It has 800 priests and about 2,400 seminarians. At its peak, in 2004, the annual operating budget of $650 million covered the network of schools, seminaries and colleges in Latin America, North America and Europe.

Early this year, at the Legion's first general chapter meeting in 10 years, the order elected new leaders and issued a lengthy statement apologizing to Maciel's victims, reflecting on its failures with a pledge of reform.

"Several of us expected that the chapter would put in place objective means of communicating the internal changes -- and what that would mean," Byrne said. "But there are no watchdogs to see if the Legion actually fulfills its roles or promises -- no outside evaluators. The same culture is still present."

The 138-page Magdala: God Really Loves Women seems a case in point. The suggestion that Maciel lost his reputation unfairly, "without even investigating the truth," contradicts Benedict's statement inLight of the World (2010) by journalist Peter Seewald. Benedict alludes to the two-year investigation that culminated in the 2006 dismissal of Maciel from ministry.

wash away your sins

"Unfortunately, we addressed these things very slowly and late," said the pope. "Somehow they were concealed very well, and only around the year 2000 did we have any concrete clues."

Benedict said Maciel's life was "out of moral bounds -- an adventurous, wasted, twisted life. On the other hand, we see the dynamism and strength with which he built up the congregation of Legionaries."

That same year, the Vatican said Maciel's life was "devoid of scruples and of genuine religious meaning."

Magdala: God Really Loves Women was prepared in time for the media events the Legion held in advance of Francis' trip to the Holy Land in May. The copyright is credited to Hermana Viljoen, of Pretoria, South Africa. Printed in Jerusalem, the book states: "Overseen by the Legionaries of Christ."

It was at a Nov. 30, 2004, ceremony celebrating Maciel's 60th year in the priesthood that Pope John Paul II gave the Legion administrative control of the Pontifical Institute Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center. The move was pushed by then-Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano. Allegations of pedophilia brought by ex-Legionaries against Maciel had been gathering dust in Ratzinger's office at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 1998, but with Sodano's weight behind the proposition, the Jerusalem center was given over to the Legion. In video footage of the 2004 ceremony, Maciel kneels before the ailing pope, the two exchange kisses in an embrace.

"Brokenness, shame and trauma do not happen to women only," explains Magdala, citing "the stories of women who have suffered tremendously because of moral problems." The text continues:

When the facts surrounding Marcial Maciel came into the news, it sent shockwaves throughout the world. Having been the founder the Legionaries of Christ, many looked up to his example and trusted his integrity. "For us he was a holy man, the leader of a big spiritual movement," says Father John [Solana]. "He initiated many dozens of universities, hundreds of schools, hundreds of youth centers, thousands of vocations. ... All of a sudden his reputation collapsed like the twin towers. When you have idealized him for years and he was the model, your spiritual father and suddenly poof, he was nothing. It was extremely painful."

"Many dozens of universities" is inaccurate. The Legion at its height, even if one counts collegiate-level seminaries, had about two dozen.

Sodano was papal nuncio in Chile during the Pinochet regime when he befriended the Legion founder; Maciel was making inroads for prep schools and seminaries. Back in Rome, Sodano became a beneficiary of the Legion's financial gifts; he pulled out the stops in trying to halt Ratzinger from prosecuting Maciel.

As a Vatican property, the Pontifical Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center is a huge asset, with a library, five-star hotel accommodations, conference space and a hospitality school for Arab Christians. The Vatican gave the Legion control for 49 years. All revenues to Notre Dame of Jerusalem go back into operations, Legionary Fr. Benjamin Clariond explained by email from Rome. Solana makes an annual report to the Vatican.

The Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center is a required stop for any papal visit because the Vatican owns it. Benedict stopped there during his visit to Israel. Francis, on his recent whistle-stop visit, met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center. In a separate event, he blessed the tabernacle and altar to be used in the Magdala Center, according to the Magdala Center's website.

The Legion of Christ -- not the Holy See -- is in charge of Magdala Center, Clariond told NCR. "The project includes the archeological park, the spirituality center, a restaurant, and a house for pilgrims [a hotel]. Investment dimension for the whole project would range between 80 and 100 million USD. Donations to the project go strictly to the project."

Clarond said that the hotel would not return profits to investors. Does the Legion own the hotel? "That is the plan," he answered by email. "But the lodging for pilgrims has not been completed yet."

[Jason Berry produced "Vows of Silence," a documentary on Maciel, and is author of Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church.]