ROME – Pope Francis has with an archbishop who belongs to a scandal-plagued lay group in Peru and who was removed from leadership of the Piura archdiocese as an ongoing Vatican investigation into his community moves forward.
Pope Francis met privately with Archbishop José Antonio Eguren Anselmi, who in April resigned as head of the Archdiocese of Piura at the age of 67, eight years shy of the usual retirement age for Catholic prelates.
The reasons for the Pope’s meeting with Eguren were not disclosed, nor was it clear whether Eguren had been summoned, or whether he had asked for the meeting himself.
