Vatican visitation probes lay movement in Peru
October 28, 2015
The Vatican has conducted an apostolic visitation of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (Sodality of Christian Life), a lay movement with a growing influence in Latin America, because of charges that the group’s founder was guilty of sexual abuse.
Bishop Fortunato Pablo Urcey of Chota, Peru, was appointed by the Vatican to investigate charges against Luis Fernando Figari, who founded the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae in 1971. The group revealed that the visitation began in April and is expected to continue through early 2016.
Figari, a layman, had been the leader of the Sodalitium until he stepped down in 2011. Earlier that year, the group was shaken by revelations that its vicar general, the late German Doig, had been accused of abuse. The Sodalitium eventually acknowledged that those accusations had “substance and credibility.”
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