Lima, Peru, Feb 21, 2019 / 15:00 pm
The founder of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae has been formally expelled from the group's community life, and forbidden from contacting any member of the Sodalitium, the group announced in a statement released on Feb. 20. Figari is also forbidden from returning to his native Peru.
On January 30, 2017, the Vatican's Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life prohibited Figari from having any contact with other members of the society after it was found that he had sexually and psychologically abused members and committed other abuses of power.
Figari immediately appealed this decision, and made a second appeal in 2018 after his first was denied.
In January 2017, the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life ordered at that the Sodalitium ban Figari from Peru, "except for grave motives and always with a written permission," and that he be moved to a location where there is no Sodalit community.