Vatican investigates disturbing reports as Peruvian archbishop resigns from position
Archbishop José Eguren of Piura, Peru resigned amid a Vatican investigation into sexual abuse and financial corruption within the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae movement. The Vatican has been watching the group for over a decade, and in 2017 a report revealed founder Luis Fernando Figari’s sexual abuses. Journalists Pedro Salinas and Paola Ugaz first exposed these abuses in 2015, along with reports of forced evictions in Eguren’s diocese by a Sodalitium-linked developer. Eguren filed a defamation lawsuit against the journalists in 2018 but dropped it in 2019 after facing criticism. Last year, the Vatican sent investigators to Peru to look into the allegations within Sodalitium, which led to Eguren’s resignation.
The Vatican’s investigation has not released its findings, but there is speculation that Eguren’s resignation is a prelude to further actions, potentially the suppression of Sodalitium.
Complaints about Figari’s behavior were made to the Lima archdiocese in 2011, but action wasn’t taken until the release of Salinas’ book in 2015.
https://globeecho.com/vatican-investigat...-position/
Archbishop José Eguren of Piura, Peru resigned amid a Vatican investigation into sexual abuse and financial corruption within the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae movement. The Vatican has been watching the group for over a decade, and in 2017 a report revealed founder Luis Fernando Figari’s sexual abuses. Journalists Pedro Salinas and Paola Ugaz first exposed these abuses in 2015, along with reports of forced evictions in Eguren’s diocese by a Sodalitium-linked developer. Eguren filed a defamation lawsuit against the journalists in 2018 but dropped it in 2019 after facing criticism. Last year, the Vatican sent investigators to Peru to look into the allegations within Sodalitium, which led to Eguren’s resignation.
The Vatican’s investigation has not released its findings, but there is speculation that Eguren’s resignation is a prelude to further actions, potentially the suppression of Sodalitium.
Complaints about Figari’s behavior were made to the Lima archdiocese in 2011, but action wasn’t taken until the release of Salinas’ book in 2015.
https://globeecho.com/vatican-investigat...-position/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
