Why Pope Francis singled out the Sodalitium with a Special Mission to probe abuse and violence in that Peruvian organization?
Abuse wise, Mexico, Spain, and Argentina, would need similar probes, but on top of abuse, sexual and otherwise, the Sodalitium undermines its own church’s authority. Politicization of religious practice is not new to Peru or Latin America, but at the Sodalitium it goes against the Church’s own interest and future.
What makes the Peruvian Sodalitium a catalog of sorts of the worst features of Roman Catholicism in Latin America? What made Pope Francis willing to act on that organization in ways that he has avoided up until now with the Mexican Legion of Christ, the Spanish Opus Dei, or the Argentine Institute of the Incarnate Word?
Those three organizations are as abusive as the Sodalitium; the Legion, the Opus, the Institute, and the Sodalitium all share a…
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