By Eduardo Berdejo
Lima Newsroom, April 15, 2025 / 13:31 pm
The Vatican introduced Tuesday that the suppression of the sodality of the Christian life and all of the establishments based by Luis Fernando Figari has been formalized because of an investigation ordered by Pope Francis.
The sodality of the Christian life (SCV for its Latin acronym) was formally dissolved on Monday after its superior common, José David Correa, signed the decree of the suppression on the headquarters of the Dictice for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Apostolic Life Societies within the Vatican.
The sodality reported in an announcement that the act passed off “within the presence of Sister Simona Brambilla, Prefect of Dicastery.”
He additionally reported that “Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu Farnós has been appointed Apostolic commissioner to oversee points associated to sodality suppression.” Bertomeu, along with Archbishop Charles Scicluna, was a part of the particular mission that Pope Francis despatched to Peru in July 2023 to analyze the accusations of abuse contained in the apostolate.
In his textual content, the SCV stated that its members settle for “with disappointment and obedience” the choice “particularly accepted by Pope Francis, which ends our society.”
With the signing of this decree, all of the establishments based by Figari are dissolved, together with the Marian fraternity of reconciliation, the servants of God’s plan and the motion of the Christian life.
The fraternity of Marian’s reconciliation introduced its dissolution on April 2, God’s plan servants did the identical on April four, and the Christian life motion introduced its dissolution on April 14.
The Fraternity of Marian Reconciliation defined that the suppression of the decree “is motivated by the dearth of a carism of divine origin within the founder [Figari] in addition to for abuse and inappropriate and abusive habits of Figari and plenty of of his collaborators. “La Fraternidad” acknowledges that it was not proof against psychological and conscientious abuse inside its management. ”
Figari was sanctioned by the Vatican in February 2017 after sexual abuse and abuse of energy through which he participated for a number of years. In August 2024, Pope Francis expelled him from the SCV, that sodality had requested in 2019.
In his assertion on April 15, the sodality thanked God for the vocation to which his members have been referred to as “with none advantage to serve within the Church.”
“We stiffen the truth that, by their love motion, many individuals from a number of international locations have shared with us a real expertise of religion, fraternity and apostolic fervor, which has given a lot fruit,” stated the textual content.
The SCV additionally reiterated its admission of guilt of the victims for the “abuse and abuse dedicated inside our group … We additionally apologize to your entire Church and society for the ache triggered.”
He additionally thanked those that fashioned his religious household and the bishops who welcomed them to their dioceses.
The SCV was based by Figari in Lima, Peru, in 1971 and was additionally current in Italy, the US, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Ecuador.
Its dissolution was introduced to its members in January through the Plenary Meeting held by the SCV in Aparecida, Brazil.
With respect to the property of the suppressed establishments, the decrees shared by the fraternal and the servants point out that the consolidated quantity have to be used to “compensate for the victims and, subsidiarily, be donated proportionally to ensure the monetary help of the members of the entities based by Luis Fernando Figari.”
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On January 21, Sodality reported that between Might 2016 and December 2024, it supplied repairs to 83 individuals who have been victims of sexual and psychological abuse, in addition to the abuse of energy by settlements exterior the courtroom.
The SCV declared that of the overall circumstances for which repairs have been made, 15 concerned sexual abuse of minors between the ages of 11 and 17, 18 concerned grownup abuse and 50 concerned different varieties of abuse.
This story It was first printed By ACI Press, the Spanish information accomplice of CNA. It has been translated and tailored by CNA.
Eduardo Berdejo has a journalism title of the Nationwide Mayor of the College of San Marcos (Peru). He has been a member of the ACI Press crew since 2001. He has coated the visits of Pope Francis to Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Peru. It additionally has a diploma in comparative literature of the College of Piura (Peru) and has accomplished the great type correction course within the Publishing Faculty Lima (Peru).