Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Victoria Cardiel / CNA
The director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, confirmed on Sunday the disciplinary measures that were taken in 2019 against Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, archbishop emeritus of Lima, Peru, as a result of “the accusations [of sexual abuse] formulated against him”.
Cipriani broke his silence on Friday, January 24, denying the accusations of sexual abuse against him published by the Spanish newspaper El País and revealing that the Vatican imposed sanctions on him in 2019, the same ones that the Vatican confirmed to ACI Prensa.
The accusations published by El País are based on the testimony of a 58-year-old man who said that Cipriani — who was an Opus Dei priest from 1977 to 1988, when he was named bishop by Pope John Paul II — abused him in 1983 when he was between 16 and 17 years old at an Opus Dei centre.