Luis Fernando Intriago Páez

Intriago was accused of sexual abuse and torture of minors by means of a practice (dynamic of sin (dinámica del pecado)) not recognized by the Catholic Church. In 2013 Archbishop Antonio Arregui suspended him from his priestly activities. He befriended the founder of the Christian Life Movement, Luis Fernando Figari (also accused of sexual abuse of minors), in Lima, and brought the Christian Life Movement to Ecuador.

Starting in 2013, Intriago was accused of sexual abuse and torture of minors. Intriago was able to manipulate the minors by telling them that a heavenly voice had told him that they were the chosen ones, the anointed, who would change the world.

The first to denounce Intriago for these acts was Juan José Bayas in 2013. Bayas was 23 years old at the time, but he suffered through the dynamics of sin when he was 15.

In 2003, he was informally and repeatedly reprimanded by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for active homosexual behavior. He was again reprimanded in 2009 when the congregation was made aware that Intriago was having nocturnal encounters with minors who were members of the Christian Life Movement.

In 2002, Intriago founded the Catholic group Christian Life Movement in Guayaquil. There he counseled young people. The group had more the 1,500 members in 2005.

Intriago worked in the neighborhood parishes of Guayaquil—Urdesa and La Alborada. In 1996 he became the parish priest of the Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Czestochowa). There he exercised his priestly duties and organized the processions of Holy Week, with religious groups such as the Legion of Mary, Montaña Clara, Charismatic Movement, Matrimonio para Cristo, and Christian Life Movement.

Luis Fernando Intriago Páez (born 1956) is a secularized priest from Guayaquil. He was parish priest of the Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa (Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Czestochowa) from 1996 to 2013. Intriago was dismissed from his priestly functions by the Archdiocese of Guayaquil after there were complaints that Intriago sexually abused and tortured minors. Intriago told his victims that to help themselves and their families, they needed to suffer through a secret sacrifice, which he named the dynamic of sin (dinámica del pecado). The Catholic Church does not approve such rituals.

Intriago was born in 1956 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and is the second of four brothers. He graduated from Unidad Educativa Javier, a Jesuit school in Guayaquil.