Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani: Peru’s hardline archbishop of Lima plagiarised Popes Benedict XVI and Paul VI in his newspaper column El Comercio has refused to publish any more articles by the arch-conservative cleric who has launched attacks on everything from gay rights to state pensions

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani: Peru’s hardline archbishop of Lima plagiarised Popes Benedict XVI and Paul VI in his newspaper column El Comercio has refused to publish any more articles by the arch-conservative cleric who has launched attacks on everything from gay rights to state pensions
As an outspoken critic of modern “decadence”, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the hardline archbishop of Lima, might be expected to set a spotless moral example. He has launched excoriating attacks on everything from single mothers and gay rights to human rights activists, while even questioning a state pension of just £25 a month for some of Peru’s poorest citizens on the grounds that it discourages thrift. He has also called for mercy for paedophile priests. So it came as a surprise this month when it was claimed that Cardinal Cipriani, one of just…Read more …