Vatican says sanctions still in effect against Opus Dei cardinal following sex abuse allegations

Vatican City (APP)-Vatican said Sunday that disciplinary sanctions against OPS DI’s first cardinal are still in force. Charges of sexual abusePeru’s Lima once confirmed a series of sanctions against a powerful Archbishop, including the need to leave his home country.

Vatican spokesman Matteo Broony said the sanctions imposed on cardinal Juan Louis Sepian Thorne included “their public activity, residence and indicators.” He said that although he was allowed to deviate from them because of his age and family needs, he said, but these measures are in force.

81 -year -old Sepani, an 81 -year -old in Madrid and Rome, confessed to the restrictions on Saturday following a report in Spain’s L El Pace newspaper, detailing the story of an alleged victim. Cipariani termed the allegations “completely wrong.”

“I have committed no crime, nor did I sexually abuse anyone in 1983, nor before, before,” Cyipani said in a letter provided by the Ops Dai’s Rome Office. “

Brunei’s statement did not provide details of the case, but said that the sanctions were imposed in 2019 after retiring as the head of the Cairo Peru Church as a result of allegations against them. He said that Ciprani accepted the steps.

These restrictions are like the other advanced church men who have been accused of sexual abuse. Former Archbishop Agana, Guam, Archbishop Anthony Apuron And the Nobel Peace Prize -winning former Bishop East Timor, Bishop Carlos Zimens BelloBoth were forced to leave their hometowns and restrict their public ministries after allegations of abuse.

Sepani, who had led the Peru Church for two decades before retirement in 2019, was the first cardinal of Ops DI, which was founded by Spanish pastor Jozmaria Escrevi in ​​1928 and 90 in 70 countries. There are more than 000 members. This Le Group, which St. John Paul II loved, is the priests, as well as women and women with secular jobs and families who are trying to “strengthen normal life”.

Following this last week, the allegations against Ciprani have increased the fluctuations in the Peru Church that Pope Francis decided to dissolve the powerful and influential movement in Peru. Sudytium Christina VitaAnother conservative Catholic movement. After years of reform efforts, Francis decided to suppress the group when the Vatican investigation revealed sexual exploitation by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders, and spiritual and physical abuse by its top members. What

The first charges against Sudaltium were a broadcast in 2000 in a series of articles in Janett, a magazine Jaus, a series of articles in 2000.

The first victims were when the victims made formal allegations against the church in 2011. They Insisted that he handled the charges correctlyBut it was not until journalists Pedro Selenis and Pola Yugaz exposed the methods of Sodalatium in their 2015 book “Half Runs, Half Military”, which the matter began to move into the matter.

Ten years later and 25 years After that, Escard first went to the public with stories of abuse, Escard 3 met with the Pope on Friday. He said he discussed the need to dissolve the movement and keep the victims front and center as the Vatican ends the group and leads to its members.

He told the Associated Press outside St. Peters Square on Saturday, “I feel very good, very good, listen.” “I think I too lets lose heavy weight, which is the voice of many victims.”

It attributed the church’s slow reactions about the Sudiletium scandal, and attributed to the attacks that the victim suffered to speak, enjoying the protection of it in Rome and Lima’s church’s highest scablone Here.

“The cardinal cipaneous opus was a dye cardinal, which needed sodilatium,” he said.

The foundation of this sodilatium was founded in 1971 as one of the Catholic societies, which was born as a conservative reaction to the movement of the Liberation Lord, which was swept away in Latin America in the 1960s. It was. At its height, the group counted about 20,000 members in South America and the United States. It was very effective in Peru and has its US base in Denver.

Following the Vatican investigation, Francis started taking action last year, formally removing the founder of the first sodilatium and 10 top members. Last week, the group confirmed that the Vatican had planned to suppress it.

Peru Bishops expressed solidarity with the victims of Sudilatium, for their part and thanked them in a statement on Saturday, but defended their actions.

The Bishops Conference said in a statement on Saturday, “We are deeply sorry that something horrible in Peru’s church has happened.” “We express our regrets to those who have not felt properly with us because they did not know about the steps that this Epscopell Conference has been taking before seeing sacred for many years.”

Victims have long accused the Peru Church ranking for the long -standing influence of this group in the country, to join the Sudiletium scandal and see the other way.

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