Investigation of Marcial still underway

For those following the peculiar case of Maciel Marcial, the priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, this report found here tells us that, contrary to recent widespread reports, the investigation by the Vatican into allegations leveled against him of sexual misconduct have not, repeat, not been dropped. What the hey, you may say!

Here is an excerpt from the report:

Recently, I wrote about the “New Pope and the Catholic Sex Scandal” (go here). In that article, I opined that the recent re-activation of an investigation against the founder of the Legionaries of Christ—a congregation of priests within the Catholic Church—indicated that the Vatican took seriously the problem of the sex scandal not only as it manifested itself in the United States, but in other parts of the Church (and world), and was a cause for hope for the faithful concerned about the status of such cases within the Church.

Specifically, the article detailed the fact that a case against Maciel Marcial which had been shelved in 1999 by then Cardinal Ratzinger, the head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, had been re-activated in December 2004, prior to the death of John Paul the Great. I should now add that Ratzinger, it seems, re-activated a number of cases in addition to the Maciel case at that time.