According to the latest biography released from his own organization's website, Figari is apparently not connected to more extreme right-wing groups and was seen by them as a communist. A tad weak that Figari and his organization have been negatively labelling people marxists, communists, terrorists, and the new biography displays Figari "persecuted" with the same label by another right-wing group, Tradition, Family and Property (TFP).
This strongly contradicts other accounts of Figari, the founder of 'God and Country', rooted in falange ideologies (which are fairly in line with fascism), and an alleged supporter of bringing TFP from Brasil to Peru. It also strongly contradicts the close ties that Figari's movement has with people such as Cardinal Cipriani of Opus Dei, who was very much involved with the Autocratic President Fujimori, and Bishop Chaput, a fairly right-wing bishop in Denver (except for his stance on immigration). And this new account of Figari's not-so-scary ideology is being stated while Sodality Bishops continue to root out the 'communists' and 'marxists' of the Church.
Taken from Sodality of Christian Life USA
"At age 24 he found a lack of esteem towards the Social Doctrine of the Church, which since age 16 he had considered essential for a just social renewal and for respecting human's rights and dignity. Therefore, in a short time he became a herald of the Church's social teachings, which granted him the bitter animosity of institutions such as "Tradition, Family and Property" that regarded him as a "disguised communist".
For a very secretive organization rife with controversy, past and present, and with right-wing affiliations, the new 'moderate' Figari and the 'moderate' Sodality of Christian Life is hard to believe. They should be applauded for their craftiness; they are on the way to re-writing their own history. As long as they [Sodalits] deny, counter-attack and pro-actively enforce being non-extremists, they will eventually erase proof of their right-wing identity - at least until the next controversy.
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Well written article.
Well, I think you get the facts wrong.
Figari was never a member of TFP. The version of his memembership in such institution came from the same source, a defamatory pamphlet written in Lima in an attempt to discredit Figari to "moderate conservative" Catholic bishops who disliked the staunchly conservative and baroque TFP. That was back in the 80s.
But the truth is quite different. If you ask someone in the old peruvian TFP about Figari's memembership, you are going to find not only that he wasn't even close to the movement, but that TFP and Figari were at odds back in the 70s and 80s, in the very first years of Sodalitium and the peruvian TFP... in the very first years...
Another thing: TFP isn't fascist. It thinks that fascism is a modern mistake (just as liberalism, comunism and catholic modernism) and a demostration of a huge bad taste.
The people of the Medieval Lion (or Griphus) Banner are closer to Chaucer than to Mussolini (or even to the soft and nice Primo de Rivera)
El Noble Mondolio
(self appointed historian of curious and secret facts in the History of the contemporary peruvian Church)
Sorry for the lousy english
thanks El Noble Mondolio.
seeing as you portray yourself as a historian, i am curious as to why you write from a position that is sympathetic to both the TFP and the SVC. you have not identified your relationship to these groups and i am not interested in engaging with unknown parties who defend the SVC using rhetoric that is VERY similar to the SVC rhetoric i describe in this article. it is suspicious and i have no interest wasting time with someone who does not have the courage to identify themselves.
i have provided (in previous articles) the source of the arguments in this blog. until there is some substantiation of the claims you make, i have no interest in these anecdotes of conversations you have had with TFP members (which makes your anonymity all the more suspicious).
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