Cardinal De Paolis is the papal delegate for the legion named in 2009 after an apostolic visitation concerning sexual misdeeds by the former head of the order, Marcial Maciel. Fr Corcuera's sabbatical was not a disciplinary or punitive matter, and he maintained his title without exercising it. In January 2013, he began cancer treatment for a brain tumor. In mid June 2014 he announced the brain tumor was not in remission, and he was living his last days in prayer with the Lord.