Overview

• Marcial Maciel: El Lobo de Dios launched on HBO Max on August 14, 2025 as a four-part documentary produced by Ánima Films for Warner Bros. Discovery and directed by Matías Gueilburt.
• The series presents previously undisclosed audiovisual material, including Super-8 footage and secret recordings of Maciel addressing his own actions.
• Survivor testimony and interviews with journalists such as Jason Berry, Raúl Olmos and Carmen Aristegui reconstruct Maciel’s decades-long pattern of sexual abuse and financial intrigue.
• The documentary examines the Legionarios de Cristo’s “fourth vow” and clerical networks that enabled Maciel’s prolonged impunity until the Vatican restricted his ministry in 2006.
• Building on the congregation’s 2019 internal investigation documenting 175 abuse cases and at least 60 victims directly tied to Maciel, the series renews calls for accountability and stronger prevention measures.