[span class="news_body12"]Boy, now that's what I call punishment for molesting little kids- not being allowed to say Mass in public. I guess prison wasn't harsh enough so they forbid him to say Mass. And people wonder why the Church membership is dwindling day by day....
[/span][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][span class="news_body12"](ANSA) - Vatican City, May 19 - Pope Benedict has approved disciplinary action against the founder of an influential Catholic religious order who has been accused of sexual abuse .
Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who founded the Legion of Christ order in Mexico in 1941, has been told to observe a "reserved life of prayer and penitence" and to avoid saying mass in public. The Vatican issued a statement on Friday announcing its decisions and noting that they had been approved by the pope. It did not go into details about the accusations levelled at the priest. [/span]
Maciel, who lives in Mexico, has been accused by some former seminarians of sexual abuses dating back to the 1940s and 1950s, when they were boys as young as 10.
