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Pope Francis has inherited John Paul's most notorious failure on the sex-abuse front – the Legion of Christ order, which John Paul and his top advisers held up as a model.

The Vatican is reported to be investigating seven priests of the Legion of Christ order in connection with allegations of child abuse.

In Mexico, the founder of the Legion of Christ order, Marcial Maciel, long admired by Pope John Paul II, was disciplined by the Vatican in 2006 over the abuse of boys and young men over a period of 30 years.

Benedict's defenders say he should be credited with overhauling the church's response to abuse cases and taking specific action in at least one high-profile matter, an investigation into the founder of the Legionaries of Christ religious order, after such cases were consolidated under his control in 2001.

The Rev. Thomas Williams belongs to the Legionaires of Christ, the order founded by the notorious Mexican priest Marcial Maciel Degollado, a pal of Pope John Paul II who died peppered with accusations that he sexually abused seminarians and fathered several children and abused some of them.

Francis recently granted an indulgence to the controversial Legionaries of Christ religious order.

And not when many of us are willing to ignore the teachings of Christ in order to make a nation great.

Part II talks about the duties of those who follow God's invitation, to pass the love of Christ in order to achieve heaven on earth, a thought also expressed in the Epistle reading.

Members of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, an order of Catholic sisters, as well as advocates from local grassroots group Lancaster Against Pipelines held a dedication ceremony on Sunday for the new outdoor chapel.

The Legionaries of Christ is ordering images of its disgraced founder removed from its buildings worldwide as part of Vatican-mandated reforms.

Adelheid Streidel, who stabbed the then Saarland prime minister and Germany's future finance minister Oskar Lafontaine in April 1990, believed that Jesus Christ had ordered her to expose a secret network of 'killing factories', where abducted victims were dismembered and new beings fashioned from their body parts.