Overshadowed by Controversy: Difference between revisions

* Marcial Maciel was once a respected priest who founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement, having been hailed as "the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church" and as a prolific recruiter of new seminarians. There were however numerous reports of not only youths being sexually abused by him, but several scandalous relationships with women, one of them being a minor at the time. The Legion has since distanced themselves from their now-disgraced founder, though not without acknowledging at least some of his atrocities, but the damage has been done regardless as some priests and seminarians left the congregation and several schools and centers of formation closed. Such was Maciel's notoriety that his name became a derisive byword for [[Pedophile Priest]] in his native Mexico.

* Wernher von Braun remains a polarising figure in the aerospace industry, as while his contributions to space engineering and rocket science are of no small matter, such as being the principal architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, his association with the Nazis (of whom he developed the V-2 rocket for), particularly the SS, was something he couldn't easily shake off even after his death. One science- and engineering-oriented Gymnasium in Friedberg, Bavaria was renamed in response to calls for von Braun's name to be removed, especially in 2012 when a concentration camp survivor named David Salz denounced von Braun and called for the school to "do everything to make this name disappear from this school". Though to von Braun's credit, he explained that he defected to the Americans instead of the Soviets as a result of his desire to share his knowledge of rocket science to those who followed the [[Bible]], perhaps in atonement for what he did with the V-2.

 

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