Cardinal Cipriani denies abuse, confirms disciplinary measures

A prominent cardinal was secretly disciplined in 2019. He says Pope Francis later lifted the restrictions.

After Vatican restrictions emerged Saturday on a Peruvian cardinal’s ministry, the cardinal claimed they were lifted by Pope Francis, and that a 2018 allegation of sexual abuse against him was false.

But the Vatican said Sunday that that Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani remains subject to binding written restrictions on his ministry, with only a few exception…