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Voltaire2

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Wed Jan 10, 2018, 10:14 PM Jan 2018

As a criminal prosecution looms, the Vatican takes control of Catholic movement in Peru


The Vatican has announced that it has taken control of the Sodalitium of Christian Life, a society of consecrated laypeople and priests. The group was founded in Peru in 1971 by a layperson, Luis Fernando Figari, who prosecutors in Peru are now seeking to detain. The move comes just days before Pope Francis begins a visit to Chile and Peru.

Members of the leadership in the society, known by its Latin acronym S.C.V., have been accused of authoritarian lifestyles and financial mismanagement. Its founder and other leaders have been accused of sexually abusing minors in the group. The S.C.V. includes about 20,000 members and is governed by a group of celibate laymen known as “sodalits.”

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Some of Sodalitium's victims have denounced the Vatican's handling of the case, saying the six-year delay in taking any action and subsequently allowing Mr. Figari to live in retirement in Rome was anything but satisfactory.

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Mr. Figari was a charismatic intellectual, but he was also "narcissistic, paranoid, demeaning, vulgar, vindictive, manipulative, racist, sexist, elitist and obsessed with sexual issues and the sexual orientation of S.C.V. members," according to a 2017 investigative report commissioned by the society's new leadership.

The report, by two Americans and an Irish expert in abuse, found that Mr. Figari sodomized his recruits and forced them to fondle him and one another. He liked to watch them "experience pain, discomfort and fear" and humiliated them in front of others to enhance his control over them, the report found.


https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/01/10/criminal-prosecution-looms-vatican-takes-control-catholic-movement-peru

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As a criminal prosecution looms, the Vatican takes control of Catholic movement in Peru (Original Post) Voltaire2 Jan 2018 OP
The word "Sodality" is not familiar to many non-Catholics. MineralMan Jan 2018 #1

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
1. The word "Sodality" is not familiar to many non-Catholics.
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 10:30 AM
Jan 2018

Sodalities are lay organizations approved of by the RCC. They have many roles, but are more or less "Booster Clubs" for the church. Here's a link that explains how they work in one local Catholic Church:

https://stmarysrockville.org/history-of-sodality

Typically, drinking of sodas is not a major part of their meetings, I think, either.

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