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Amid an ongoing investigation into a scandal-plagued Peruvian lay group, the Vatican Tuesday announced that a top archbishop belonging to the group had been removed from leadership of the Piura archdiocese.

Pope Francis despite a lingering flu causing breathing difficulties met with the leader of a Peru-based lay group at the Vatican Friday amid an ongoing investigation into the community’s financial activities and various reform efforts.

A Peruvian Parliamentary Investigatory Commission on the Sexual Abuse of Minors in Organizations published a lengthy report on the Society for Christian Life, which examined various aspects of the group and the allegations against it.

Once a powerful lay institution with massive membership not only in Peru, but in several other countries, the Sodalitium was accused of promoting systemic spiritual, physical and sexual abuse against dozens of members for decades, as well as financial corruption.

As part of their ongoing probe into a scandal-plagued lay group in Peru, the Vatican’s top investigating duo has met with a Peruvian archbishop accused of land trafficking, and a group of peasants his community is alleged to have harassed.

As the Vatican’s top investigators are in Peru making inquiries into a troubled lay order, the Archdiocese of Lima has announced the appointment of a temporary administrator of one of the group’s two female branches.

On Tuesday the Vatican’s top investigators began holding interviews in Peru as part of their inquiry into a scandal-plagued lay group whose founder has been sanctioned for various abuses and barred from contacting the group.

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