Pope Francis despite a lingering flu causing breathing difficulties met with the leader of a Peru-based lay group at the Vatican Friday amid an ongoing investigation into the community’s financial activities and various reform efforts.
In an exclusive interview with Gerard O’Connell, Cardinal Pedro Barreto rejoiced when the Synod on Synodality recognized the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon as “an example of synodality.”
Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto has reflected on the growing influence of the church in Latin America and has signaled openness to women deacons and advocated for the dissolution of a lay community currently being investigated by the Vatican.
Archbishop Charles Scicluna, the secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will lead a Vatican investigation of the Sodality of Christian Life (SCV), a lay group that has been troubled for years by sex-abuse charges.
The United Nations refugee agency said on Saturday (February 4) that seven Haitian migrants died in the Andean highlands of Peru as their efforts to cross into Bolivia were stymied by anti-government protests which have been going on since early December 2022. Speaking to the news agency AFP, Iris Bano Romero, a spokesperson for the refugee agency, said that six deaths, including that of a minor, occurred in Desaguadero town, news agency AFP reported. Romero added the seventh death occurred in the town of Juli.