Peruvian cardinal-designate condemns lay group as fascist revival
October 21, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Carlos Castillo of Lima, Peru—who has been named by Pope Francis to become a cardinal at the December consistory—has said that the Sodality of Christian Life (SCV) should be suppressed.
The SCV, a lay movement founded in 1971 by Peruvian Luis Fernando Figari, has been the target of repeated Vatican investigations. In 2017 Figari was banned from the movement, and this August the Vatican ordered the expulsion of several other leading members.
Cardinal-designate Castillo, in an essay that appeared October 19 in El Pais, condemned the movement as “the revival of fascism in Latin America, using the Church cunningly” to advance a political agenda.
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