Overview
- The Holy See’s religious orders dicastery named three adjunct apostolic commissioners to close the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae and its linked entities.
- Arequipa Archbishop Javier del Río Alba will lead the adjunct group alongside laymen César Arriaga Pacheco and Juan Velásquez Salazar, according to the archdiocese.
- The appointees will collaborate with Commisary Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu-Farnós on the legal, canonical, and administrative steps required to dissolve the Sodalitium, the Fraternidad Mariana de la Reconciliación, the Siervas del Plan de Dios, and the Movimiento de Vida Cristiana.
- The action implements decrees issued on January 14 and approved by the late Pope Francis that ordered the suppression of the organization.
- The victims’ collective Asociación por la Verdad, Justicia y Reparaciones Dignas rejected del Río Alba’s inclusion and demanded transparency, empathy, and concrete reparations, while the Red de Sobrevivientes Perú told AP the group still operates informally in some centers.