Luis Badilla has reconstructed the accusations against Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, former Archbishop of Lima, Peru.
- As in the case of Rupnik and others, everything has been covered up and all those involved are playing their own game.
- After the experiences of Francis' tenure, the only true thing is that the truth will never be known.
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At the time of the alleged abuse of a 16-17 year old boy in Peru, Don
Juan Luis Cipriani was the spiritual director of the Lima seminary
(1981-1983).
- 2018: Thirty-five years later, Francis receives a
letter from the accuser (currently aged around 58/59) via Juan Carlos
Cruz, a Chilean homosexual.
- The Vatican informed Cipriani without giving any documents or other details.
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December 2019: The Nuncio informs Cipriani orally of a list of
sanctions imposed on him, including absolute silence, which Cipriani
maintained until Saturday 25 January 2025.
- February 2020:
Francis receives Cipriani and allows him to resume his pastoral
activities, including as a member of a Vatican dicastery.
- On 29 January 2025, Cipriani declared that he had signed a so-called "penal precept".
- Bergoglio had been hostile to Opus Dei since he was a young man, and had often made gestures to show this.
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A faithful friend of Cardinal Bergoglio told the story of his teenage
son asking Bergoglio: "Who are these Catholics who call themselves
Opus?" Bergoglio replied: 'Do you think they are Christians?"
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Francis' decisions in 2019 indicate that he considers Cipriani guilty,
but no one knows on what evidence he bases his conviction.
- Once
again, Francis returns to the manipulation of facts for media gain, and
media activists immediately jumped on board to deal a blow to Opus Dei.
- It is plausible that the revelations about Cipriani are a premeditated and planned attack on Opus Dei.
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Many questions remain: Why did Cipriani not report himself to the
Peruvian justice system; why did the Vatican not give him the documents;
why were the heavy penalties not communicated in writing; why is this
case being handled in a media battle; who leaked the documents to the
regime's media and why?
- If Cipriani's accusations are true
(denial of various rights, including an odious one: imposing absolute
silence on the presumed guilty), then we are facing another violation of
human rights by Francis (who has always said he 'defends' them).
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On 29 January, Cipriani said that he had received a text with the
sanctions imposed by Francis and that he had signed it on 19 December
2019 (Badilla: "Should we conclude that the Cardinal has thus pleaded
guilty?)
- Previously, Cipriani had said other things, for
example that he had not received any documents; he also remained silent
on the fact that he had signed the penalty.
- He confirmed that
he personally received the lifting of the sanctions from Francis in
February 2020, while the Vatican said that the sanctions were still in
force.
- At this point it is clear that there is a fine web of lies, manipulation and mystification in this affair.
- Badilla asks: "Who is lying? Bergoglio or Cipriani? and why?"
- There can be no Church without law. The disciples of Christ are not subjects.
- The delicate issue has become, as is now customary, an indecipherable affair.
- A hierarchical way of leading the Church out of control has become normal under Francis.
- It is too often forgotten that the Church has laws that govern its life.
- The Church cannot be an institution or a community where the hierarchy does what it wants without being accountable to anyone.
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It is not written that a pope can decide anything without explanation
or argument, and that everyone else must simply bow in submission like a
plebeian before his feudal lord.
- There is no such thing as a
lawless Church or a Church governed by personal 'laws', not codified
according to the norm, improvised for the occasion, not shared and not
known.
- Among the convicted abusers, there is a 'difference'
between excellent offenders who are friends of friends and marginalised,
unprotected, petty members of the anonymous clergy.
- Nowadays,
and increasingly so, it is not easy to distinguish between the pursuit
and denunciation of a serious crime and the methods used in the fight
against "paedophilia" to crush opponents and even to end careers in the
ecclesiastical world.
- Badilla denounces the violation of
respect for the person, his dignity and his rights: "The list of lay
people, religious and clerics who have suffered 'absolute arbitrariness'
under the pretext of covering up damage to the image of the Church is
very long".
- In recent years, a style, a method and an idea have
gained ground, according to which the Pope and his closest
collaborators are not obliged to respect the law, the legislative texts,
not even the Code of Canon Law, which regulates the life of the Church
of Christ.
- If it is true that, after being informed of a
complaint of paedophilia against him (August 2018), no one at the
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith listened to Cipriani for a long
16 months, it means that minimal human rights are not respected in the
Vatican.
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