Pope Francis took the unusual step this week of expelling 10 people — including a priest who leads a Denver-area church — from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru that has strong ties to Colorado, a decision that came after a Vatican investigation uncovered “sadistic” abuses of power, authority and spirituality. The move against the leadership of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, or Sodalitium of Christian Life, followed Francis’ decision last month to expel the group’s founder, Luis Figari, after he was found to have sodomized his recruits. The Peruvian Bishops Conference posted a statement from the Vatican embassy on its website that attributed the expulsions to a “special” decision taken by Francis. The statement was astonishing because it listed abuses uncovered by the Vatican investigation that have rarely if ever been punished canonically — such as hacking someone’s communications — and cited the people the pope held responsible. According to the statement, the Vatican investigators uncovered physical abuses “including with sadism and violence,” sect-like abuses of conscience, spiritual abuse, abuses of authority, economic abuses in administering church money and the “abuse in the exercise of the apostolate of journalism.” The Sodalitium Christianae Vitae is based in Peru but has strong connections to Colorado through the Archdiocese of Denver. In 2003, Denver Archbishop Charles J.
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Nicole Winfield, Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post
Sat, 09/28/2024 - 5:00am
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