Three unnamed Mexican litigants have filed suit claiming that they are the children of Legionaries of Christ founder, Fr Marcial Maciel and seeking financial support. According to La Jornada, a Mexican newspaper with strong leftist leanings, an attorney for the new claimants expressed confidence that the new claimants could prove not only that Father Maciel was their biological father, but also that the parental link was known to Church leaders including Pope John Paul II, Catholic Culture reports citing Patrick Madrid.
Mexican lawyer José Bonilla Sada has made it known that three [additional] children, born in Mexico, will contest the Legionaries of Christ [claiming] that they should recognize their existence and their rights as heirs to the goods of the religious order's founder, the Jornada article says.
The litigant, who has as his assistant one Joaquín Aguilar - a victim of sexual abuse committed by ex-priest Nicholas Aguilar - said that he is confident that there is sufficient proof to demonstrate that even the late Pope John Paul II, along with the Legion, knew of the existence of Maciel's three other children, now adults, who were legally recognized by their father but whose names will be kept confidential.
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