This is one of a thirty part exposé on the Children of the Legion. This group of women, then girls, in the Regnum Christi, share their stories of abuse, neglect and the aftermath of being children in the Regnum Christi. For a complete list of stories to date, view Children of the Legion.
The next year and a half I spent going through my old experiences and actually letting myself question and doubt them. I had, in the past, googled “Legionaries of Christ” to try to find my favorite meditation pages… only to find that several of the top ten links were anti-Legion websites. At the time I had been horrified to find out that “we had so many enemies.” It seemed then that it would be a sin of doubt to click on those links. But now, with RC no longer having any hold on me, I went back and found all those sites. I read testimony after testimony on the various forums I found. And it all made so much sense. Continue reading “Sheila’s Story, Part X”