Posted on 10/23/2024 1:43:15 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Pope Francis has expelled two more members and upheld the expulsion of one member of the controversial lay movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae due to allegations of sexual abuse, abuse of power and financial malfeasance.
In a letter dated Oct. 21 and posted on the Peruvian bishops’ conference website, the apostolic nunciature in Peru announced that the decision was made after the pope evaluated allegations revealed during a Vatican investigation last year.
The investigation, dubbed as a “special mission,” was conducted in July 2023 by Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta and Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu, officials of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, who traveled to Peru to meet with victims, the movements’ leaders and journalists who uncovered the abuses within the group.
Founder and noted journalist among those expelled
As a result of the investigation, Luis Fernando Figari, Sodalitium’s founder, was expelled from the group in August.
On Sept. 25, the nunciature announced the expulsion of 10 members, including Peruvian Archbishop José Antonio Eguren of Piura, a professed member of Sodalitium since 1981 who resigned from leading the archdiocese in April, and Peruvian journalist Alejandro Bermudez, founder and former executive director of Catholic News Agency, which is now owned by EWTN. Bermudez parted ways with EWTN in December 2022.
Using identical words that were in a Sept. 25 statement, the nunciature said Oct. 21 the pope “evaluated the defenses corresponding to the allegations that emerged during the ‘special mission,'” including “abuse of office and authority, particularly in the form of abuse in the administration of ecclesiastical goods, as well as sexual abuse, in some cases even of minors.”
New expulsions from Sodalitium
Among the members expelled Oct. 21 were José Andrés Ambrozic Velezmoro, the former vicar general of Sodalitium and a former assistant of the lay movement’s founder Figari…
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Good grief, what planet have these folks been living on? Protestant Sexual abuse has not been swept under the carpet, it is just called a rug not a carpet.
Seriously, whoever is writing these articles have not been paying attention. Pastors, Ministers, Preachers and even the youth leaders have been busy for over sixty years as far as I have heard.
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