CNN's Nick Parker, Laura Reyes Maciel and Salomon Kauffman contributed to this report from Acapulco.
In the eyes of the world, if Maciel was evil incarnate, John Paul II was his enabler.
The Legion has faced other complaints, including one from someone who claims to be one of Maciel's children.
Marcial Maciel, a Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, an ultra-conservative Catholic movement, was a serial abuser.
Marcial Maciel, had sexually molested seminarians and fathered three children by two women.
Ferronorte's trains should reach Santos in just 40 hours, and cut freight costs by 20%, says Antonio Maciel, the rail firm's chief executive.
Some victims of Father Maciel said they privately and publicly asked Pope Benedict for a meeting, but that they never received an answer.
The Legion, which has facilities in Rhode Island, has faced other complaints, including one from a Connecticut man who claims to be Maciel's son.
After Father Maciel died in 2008, his order admitted the abuse.
Marcial Maciel, was taken over by the Vatican in 2010 after a church investigation determined that Maciel had sexually molested seminarians and fathered three children.
The issue is particularly sensitive in Mexico because of the sexual abuse committed by Father Marcial Maciel, who founded the country's most influential order, the Legion of Christ.
The Vatican knew of Maciel's abuse for decades yet held him up as a model for the faithful because of the order's perceived orthodoxy and ability to attract money and vocations.
The book entitled "La Voluntad de no Saber" (Willing not to be Aware), focuses on Father Marcial Maciel, a now-deceased, Mexican-born Roman Catholic priest accused of multiple cases of sexual abuse of minors.
The Legion, which has facilities in Rhode Island, has been the target of a petition from women once associated with it and is being sued in Connecticut by a man who says he's Maciel's son.
Garza Medina is the eldest sibling of a powerful family in Monterrey who sponsored Father Marcial Maciel, the Mexican founder of the Legion of Christ, a Catholic group marred by allegations of sexually abusing children, who died in 2008.
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Among the other documents that were released Friday were some that showed the group's former second-in-command testified he discovered that Maciel, the order's founder, had fathered a daughter in 2006, but never confronted Maciel about his double life and didn't share the news with the group's broader membership.
But Judge Michael Silverstein took pains in his order to detail the process by which the Legion wooed Mee, bending the rules to let her become a "consecrated" member of its lay movement, giving her privileged access to Maciel and inviting her on special trips to Rome and Mexico.
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