Peru Abuse Victims Applaud Vatican Mission, Request Meeting with Pope

Peruvian victims of abuse by Catholic group want Pope Leo, US to intervene

Groups alleging enduring multiple abuses from the former Catholic organization Sodalitium Christian Vitae, joined efforts on Thursday asking the church to make public it's investigation

Peru abuse victims applaud Vatican mission, request meeting with Pope

ROME – Former members of a suppressed scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group, along with peasants who claim to have been routinely harassed by the same group, have issued a joint call for justice, reparation and a meeting with Pope Leo XIV. On May 29, members of the Castillo and Catacaos peasant farming commune in Piura, Peru, stood side-by-side with former members of the Soldalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), to decry abuses and alleged financial cor…

Until last year, no one predicted that the Sodalicio de Vida Cristiana, that ultra-Catholic organization founded in the early 1970s by the Peruvian layman Luis Fernando Figari, would be suppressed. More than one had lost faith in the justice imparted by the Church with those who defile it by taking its name. But in January 2024, Pope Francis, after learning about the systematic violation against the human rights of dozens of people, dissolved th…

Victims of the Sodalitium request an audience with Pope Leo XIV | Sodalitium of Christian Life | Pope Leo XIV

Survivors of alleged abuses perpetrated by the Catholic organization Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (Sodality of Christian Life) in Peru made a public appeal on Thursday in Lima to call for the transparency of the Catholic Church and the involvement of civil authorities in the ongoing investigations. They urged Pope Leo XIV and the Peruvian government to shed light on the abuses of this once influential organization. Call for transparency and just…

Vatican's abuse commission is calling for concrete action: 'No one can give me back what was taken' - The Dialog

As the Italian bishops’ conference released its latest figures of abuse victims over the last five years, one survivor who recently met with the Vatican’s abuse commission is calling for concrete action against a bishop accused of covering up his abuse — showing that the accountability battle is, for survivors, far from over. In a telephone interview with OSV News May 23, Antonio Messina said he hoped to also meet with Pope Leo XIV and “ensure t…