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Lawsuits make new sex abuse claims against Legion of Christ

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2020 file photo, Pope Francis gives his speech during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The Vatican on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 released a speech by Pope Francis where told the scandal-marred Legion of Christ religious order it still has a long road of reform ahead, making clear that 10 years of Vatican-mandated oversight didn’t purge it of the toxic influences of its pedophile founder. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope tells scandal-marred Legion they still haven’t reformed

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020 religious miniatures are displayed in a showcase at Yolanda Martinez Garcia's home, during an interview with the Associated Press, in Milan, Italy. Her son was sexually abused by one of the priests of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Legion of Christ vows better abuse response amid new scandal

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Aug. 25, 2011 photo, Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, papal delegate for the Legionaries of Christ, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Vatican City. Benedict XVI had entrusted De Paolis, one of the Vatican’s most respected canon lawyers, to turn the Legion around in 2010, after revelations that its founder, the late Rev. Marcial Maciel, had raped his seminarians, fathered three children and built a cult-like order to hide his crimes. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Priests of disgraced Legion face trial for obstruction claim

By NICOLE WINFIELD and MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, Yolanda Martinez Garcia cries during an interview with The Associated Press at her home, in Milan. Her son was sexually abused by one of the priests of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

By Nicole Winfield and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Legion elects U.S. superior amid new abuse, cover-up crisis

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Jan. 14, 2020 photo, tears well up in Ana Lucia Salazar's eyes as she tells her story of abuse, during an interview in Mexico City. Salazar says that she was sexually abused by a Legion of Christ priest when she was eight. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

10 years after Vatican reform, Legion in new abuse crisis

By MARIA VERZA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Jan. 14, 2020 photo, Ana Lucia Salazar shows a photo of herself when she was 8-years-old, on her smart phone during an interview with the Associated Press in Mexico City. At the time Salazar says she was sexually abused by a Legion of Christ priest. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Legion vows probe into cover-up of abused little girls

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Legion of Christ accused abuser removed from priesthood

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

Legion of Christ finds 33 priests, 71 seminarian sex abusers

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Lawsuit alleges sex abuse by ex-No. 2 at Legion of Christ

By MICHAEL MELIA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Legion of Christ suit in Rhode Island moves ahead

By MICHELLE R. SMITH - Associated Press

Group seeks criminal probes of Catholic order

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