ROME – The Vatican official overseeing the suppression a Peru-based lay group plagued by scandal has announced that all four entities belonging to the so-called “spiritual family” must cease their activities.

After over a year of inquiry by the Vatican’s top two investigators, the Pope last month decided to suppress the Peru-based Sodalitium Christiane Vitae (SCV), founded by Peruvian layman Luis Fernando Figari.

Speaking during a Mass at the SCV-run Our Lady of Reconciliation parish in the neighbourhood of Camacho in Lima, Spanish Mgr Jordi Bertomeu Farnós said that “everything that Figari founded” had been suppressed.