Sodalitium of Christian Life Archives

Canonist warns Church oversight of troubled lay groups has ‘no teeth’
- Global Church
- August 12, 2017
Through the years the Vatican has developed strong rules and regulations to fight sex abuse in the clergy, but two recent sex abuse scandals in Catholic lay associations show that in these cases the Church is still very slow to respond and that often local bishops fail to exercise the necessary monitoring.
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Survivors denounce Vatican handling of Peru abuse case
- Associated Press, Vatican
- February 25, 2017
The sanctions the Vatican imposed against Luis Fernando Figari, the whistleblower Pedro Salinas said, amount to a “golden exile, where he can live comfortably with all his needs taken care of.” As a layman, Figari was not subject to the same defrocking punishment used to sanction abusive priests.
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Vatican bars Sodalit founder from contact with members
- Catholic News Agency, Global Church
- February 11, 2017
An ethics commission created to investigate accusations of abuse against Luis Fernando Figari had released a report which detailed an internal culture of extreme “discipline and obedience to the founder” which was “forged on the basis of extreme physical demands, as well as physical punishments, constituting abuses which violated the fundamental rights of persons.”
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Abuse scandal rocks Peru's upper-class Catholic sodality

April 17, 2016

LIMA, PERU – One way of looking at the Francis pontificate is that he’s universalizing what the Latin American Church agreed to at its famous continent-wide gathering in 2007, held at the Marian shrine of Aparecida in Brazil. The signature tunes of the Latin American Church to come out of

Catholic movement in Peru apologizes for founder’s sexual abuse

Church

October 22, 2015

ROME — Facing accusations of sexual abuse by its founder, a lay Catholic movement based in Peru called the Sodalitium of Christian Life has apologized to victims and pledged to cooperate with police and prosecutors. The accusations against Peruvian layman Luis Fernando Figari came from one of the movement’s former