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Amid an ongoing investigation into a scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group, the Vatican Tuesday announced that a top archbishop belonging to the group had been removed from leadership of the Piura archdiocese.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who is also adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, is leading a Vatican investigation of the Sodality of Christian Life (SCV), a Peruvian movement that has been troubled for years by sex-abuse charges.
As part of their ongoing probe into a scandal-plagued lay group in Peru, the Vatican’s top investigating duo has met with a Peruvian archbishop accused of land trafficking, and a group of peasants his community is alleged to have harassed.