Luis Garza
Luis Garza Medina is a Mexican Roman Catholic priest with the Legion of Christ. He has served as Vicar General of the Legion, Territorial Director of North America, and Spiritual Director in Manila, and he now lives in Monterrey, Mexico. He was born and raised in Monterrey and earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University. He joined the Legion of Christ in 1978.
Garza was Vicar General from 1992 to 2011. In 2006, he helped investigate serious charges of sexual abuse by Legion founder Marcial Maciel, which were later verified. He left the post in 2011 to become Territorial Director for North America. From 2014 to 2016, he was a local apostolate coordinator at Everest Academy in Manila.
His family includes an older brother, Dionisio Garza Medina, who is the CEO of Tenedora Topaz, and a younger sister, Roberta Garza Medina, who is the editor of Milenio magazine in Mexico City.
Controversies: In the early 1990s, he was listed in a civil lawsuit alleging abuse of a teenage boy, but the case was later dropped. The Legion conducted an investigation that concluded the accusations against him were not credible and that he should be free to minister without restrictions. He was named in the Pandora Papers, with reports that he had about $300 million in trusts in New Zealand.
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