Investigation

The Vatican has announced that the investigation of Marciel Maciel's Legionnaires of Christ will be headed by three bishops (a Mexican, an American, and an Italian) as well as a Jesuit priest. The report will be based on visits to the Legionnaires' centers of operation around the world, and will be handed over to the pope in several months. According to the article, it will not be made public. 

The article makes it sound as though the investigation will be more about the present operation of the Legionnaires rather than a thorough airing of the organization's scandals over the years. If my suspicion is correct, and it may well not be, this makes a complete investigation virtually impossible, given that whatever irregularities exist today are a product of the patterns of set in place and maintained over the course of decades by the order's founder. It would also seem that merely visiting the Legionnaires is an inadequate approach to offering a complete picture of the decades of sexual abuse, and unlikely to provide any meaningful assurance that said sexual abuse is not ongoing.