Introducing: Sacred Scandal: The Many Secrets of Marcial Maciel
Sacred Scandal
My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Sacred Scandal is back for a fourth season. The Many Secrets of Marcial Maciel is a gripping investigative podcast that uncovers the mysteries behind one of the Catholic Church’s most powerful and controversial figures. Through the voice of Elena Sada—a former consecrated lady in the Legion of Christ—the series exposes Marcial Maciel’s double life of abuse, fraud, and manipulation, as well as the silence and complicity that allowed him to thrive. Blending survivor testimony and in-depth reporting, the show reveals how faith, power, and secrecy collided to protect a predator, and how those who lived inside his empire found the strength to break free.
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| 0:00.0 | I was 19 years old when Marcian Masel took me in the eye and told me I had a calling. |
| 0:07.0 | Marcian Marcian Marciel was a charismatic Mexican priest who founded the Legionaries of Christ, |
| 0:12.0 | a powerful and rapidly growing religious order, but more than anything, he was an abuser in every sense of the word. I realized how much fear these men felt for this priest. |
| 0:25.6 | Masiel seemed untouchable, but even the darkest secrets eventually find their way to the light. |
| 0:32.6 | My name is Elena Sada. I was a consecrated lady and known for the Legion of Christ. |
| 0:39.9 | And this is my story. It's a story of how I learned to hide, to cry, to survive, and eventually |
| 0:46.4 | how I got out. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Secrets Scandal, the many secrets of Marcial Masel as part of the My Cultura Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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