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Mexico is the Latin American country with more cases of sexual abuse by priests detected and processed by the unit used by the Church to prosecute such offenses.
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith detected 100 cases of "delicta graviora" (serious crimes of sexual nature), such as pedophilia, in Mexico between 2001 and 2010.
"The datum placed Mexico over Brazil, both followed at a distance from other Latin American countries."
Of these 100 cases, 20 are currently being investigated by the Holy See, while 80 have already been resolved, most with convictions through criminal or administrative penalties.
These cases include, but are not limited to, the Rev. Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, who received an order to leave the public activities of Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 and Nicholas Aguilar Rivera, pastor of Tehuacan, Puebla.
For his part, Marco Politi, one of the best known Vaticanists and author of books such as "Papa Wojtyla: goodbye" and "John Paul II: the secret history of our time" felt that 100 cases of abuse did not represent a large number considering that Mexico is the largest Catholic country in Latin America, after Brazil.
According to Vatican statistics, the number of Catholic priests and religious 'figures' in Mexico is more than 14 thousand , while the percentage of the population whom profess Catholicism in the country is around 85 percent.
Meanwhile, an anonymous source added that after the apostoltic inspectors' visit ended on March 15, new cases were detected within the Mexican Order of the Legion of Christ.
"It is no more than five new cases detected after the visit of the apostolic visitors. "
