text: Ah, Maciel's great enabler wins honors for "a lifetime of work in defending the gospel of life."
  
  <<Harvard Law Professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon taught at Regina Apostolorum Athenaeum, the Legion's university in Rome, and advised in the planning that led to the order's first university in America, University of Sacramento, Calif. In a 2002 letter for the Legion Web site she scoffed at the allegations against him and praised Maciel's "radiant holiness" and "the success of Regnum Christi [the order's lay wing] and the Legionaries of Christ in advancing the New Evangelization.">>
  
  https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/money-paved-way-maciels-influence-vatican