{"id":414,"date":"2008-01-31T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T12:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/01\/maciel-dies.html"},"modified":"2008-01-31T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T12:34:54","slug":"maciel-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/01\/maciel-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"Maciel dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jigv4JIJ3tX_dFci0TXkzzDO6qDwD8UH07KO0\">Legionary of Christ founder Rev. Marcial Maciel has died:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rev. Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ religious order and was disciplined by Pope Benedict XVI after sex abuse allegations, has died in the United States, his order said Thursday. He was 87.<br \/>\nMaciel died Wednesday of natural causes, the conservative religious order said on its Web site. It did not say exactly where he died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legionariesofchrist.org\/\">A notice on the official LC site.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legionary of Christ founder Rev. Marcial Maciel has died: The Rev. Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ religious order and was disciplined by Pope Benedict XVI after sex abuse allegations, has died in the United States, his order said Thursday. He was 87. 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