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Jason Berry's Saga Ends

By Jason Berry

Gambit | March 11, 2009

The Vatican's admission of a powerful priest's secret life is vindication for a New Orleans writer and a filmmaker who exposed the scandal.

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Tags: corruption, Jason Berry, Legionairies of Christ, Marcial Maciel Degollado

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