Two Peruvians who denounced Vatican investigator threatened with excommunication
September 30, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Two Peruvian Catholics who have filed a criminal complaint against a Vatican investigator have been threatened with excommunication if they do not retract the complaint.
Giuliana Caccia Arana and layman Sebastian Blanco say that their testimony about the troubled Sodality of Christian Life (SCV) was leaked by Msgr. Jordi Bertomeu, a member of the Vatican team investigating the lay movement. They filed criminal charges against him in July.
On September 27, the two lay Catholics announced that they had been summoned to the office of the apostolic nuncio in Peru, and warned that they would be excommunicated if they did not withdraw the “unjust and reckless complaint” and apologize. The Vatican accused them of “publicly arousing hatred against the Apostolic See” and “impeding the free exercise of the ecclesiastical power.”
Caccia and Blanco said that they would not comply with the order.
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