The Peruvian cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani stops in front of Pope Francis’s coffin, serious look, intertwined hands. He wears black cassock, red girdle and solidarity and pectoral cross, the suit of his investiture that the pontiff himself forbade him to carry after complaints of sexual abuse.
Cipriani became the most influential religious in Peru, Archbishop of Lima and the first purple of Opus Dei. They place it on the most conservative side of the clergy.
He was accused of abusing a teenager four decades ago, what he denies.
Francisco forced him in 2019 to exile from Peru, not to make statements no longer carry the habits or cardinal symbols, the Vatican said in January.
He also prohibited him-according to the newspaper El País-participating in the next conclave, something that is not possible because he is 81 years old.
