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In January of 2005 Fr. Maciel, at age 84, was succeeded by Fr. [[Alvaro Corcuera]], LC as General Director of the Legion shortly after a reopening of a sex abuse investigation by the Vatican against Fr. Maciel.
'''On May 18 2006''', news agencies at the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI had ordered the 86 y.o. Maciel to renounce "all public ministeries" as a priest. This means that Maciel is not allowed to say mass or perform any public Catholic ritual. Because of his advance age, Pope Benedict decided not to defrocke him. However, this is a ''de facto'' '''suspension''' that comes as a result of years of denounces (by priests, seminarists, and many Catholics) against Maciel. These denounces pertain mostly to Maciel's alleged instances of sexual abuse on boys (see Jason Berry's book below). The National Catholic Reporter claims that, in 1956, Maciel had to leave Mexico in the midst of accusations of excessive and unhealthy control over seminarists, theft, and drug abuse, to which later on many testimonies of sexual abuse have been added. We all know though that he likes knocking up little boys. He likes to touch them.
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