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.
A Peruvian Parliamentary Investigatory Commission on the Sexual Abuse of Minors in Organizations published a lengthy report on the Society for Christian Life, which examined various aspects of the group and the allegations against it.
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.
As the Vatican’s top investigators are in Peru making inquiries into a troubled lay order, the Archdiocese of Lima has announced the appointment of a temporary administrator of one of the group’s two female branches.
On Tuesday the Vatican’s top investigators began holding interviews in Peru as part of their inquiry into a scandal-plagued lay group whose founder has been sanctioned for various abuses and barred from contacting the group.