He Pope Francis would have made the decision to dissolve the Christian Life Societyfounded in Peru in 1971, according to information revealed by the InfoVaticana portal. According to the information collected by said media, the measure was announced in the city of Aparecida, Brazil where, starting Monday, the meeting is scheduled to meet. General Assembly to elect a new superior of the Sodalitium.
Infovaticana details that the measure was taken before more than a hundred perpetual professors of the Christian Life Societywho gathered at the General Assembly in AparecidaBrazil. The news, he says, was received from Cardinal Gianfranco.
Ghirlanda, Jesuit, recognized for his experience in canon law, appointed by the Pope Francis to oversee the community reform process.
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The official sources of the Catholic church They have not spoken. They neither confirm nor deny the dissolution of the Sodalicio. They are waiting for the official document to be signed and published. The cardinal and archbishop of Lima will refer to this issue in his program on RPP
Sodalicio: the decision was made, the official document is missing
The dissolution is a fact and, according to Vatican sources consulted by La República, it is ongoing. “The document referred to in the note published in InfoVaticana It exists, but it does not yet have the Pope’s signature. The strategy of the reactionary sector is to go ahead to delay the official decision,” the sources said.
The Holy See must now do damage control with the InfoVaticana “exclusive.” This goes beyond the sole dissolution of the Sodalitium. They want to hinder the election process of the Peruvian episcopal conference that begins on Monday.
Despite the attitudes of its operators, according to Republic sources, the Pope Francis maintains closeness with the Sodalite members, through the presence of the renowned Jesuit and former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, special envoy of the Holy Father to his General Assembly.
It was he who made them aware of the news with the intention that they have relevant information for decisions about the future of the society of lay apostolic life on the eve of the General Assemblybut without the intention that this would spread outside the conclave of the Sodalites.
The serious accusations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse, along with evidence of financial corruption within the economic operations of the Sodalicio were decisive in making the decision to dissolve. The continuity of the community was unsustainable.
“There is a fairly credible claim that the pope has made the decision to suppress the Sodalitium and that they have already been informed, that they are meeting in Aparecida, Brazil, in their VI General Audience. I have consulted with official sources and they do not deny or affirm anything. I will wait for more information,” wrote Enrique Escardo, one of the first victims to publicly denounce the community’s abuses.
Sodalicio: immorality and financial and political corruption
Precisely the dissolution decree that would have been communicated by the Cardinal Ghirlandarefers to the immorality of the founder, Luis Fernando Figarias an indication of the nonexistence of a founding charisma, and therefore, the lack of ecclesial legitimacy for the permanence of the institution.
Luis Fernando Figari was expelled from Sodalicio, an organization he founded 53 years ago, after being accused by former Sodalites of physical, psychological and sexual abuse.
The Vatican’s decision came as part of the measures that must be adopted by the church after “the certainties” found in the journalistic investigation ‘Half monks, half soldiers‘against the dome of the Sodalitium.
As is known, in the book by journalist Pedro Salinas in collaboration with Paola Ugaz, around 30 testimonies were gathered from former members of the organization who suffered abuse from Luis Figari and other members of the Sodalite leadership such as Germán Doig, and Virgilio Levaggi and Jeffrey Daniels.
