
Peru Cardinal Celebrates 36 Years as a Bishop, Thanks Opus Dei Founder, John Paul II
Cardinal Cipriani also thanked his parents and friends and encouraged everyone to forge ahead and to pray for him.
Cardinal Cipriani also thanked his parents and friends and encouraged everyone to forge ahead and to pray for him.
The now-archbishop emeritus of Piura and Tumbes, Archbishop Eguren issued a statement April 2 in which he thanked God for the opportunity to have served the faithful of the northern archdiocese.
Bishop Escudero ordered his priests to not give a blessing to couples of the same sex or in an irregular situation.
Carlos Polo, director of the Latin American Office of the Population Research Institute, believes that abortion organizations are using situations like these to push for legalized abortion in Peru.
Guzmán founded Shining Path in the 1960s on communist principles, and began an armed conflict in 1980 with the goal of stoking a peasant revolution that would gain control of the Peruvian countryside, and eventually the cities.
The priest, who is also director of the Association of the Beatitudes, had already made known on May 25 the death threats he received for saying at Mass that communism is the enemy of the Church.
Archbishop Cabrejos emphasized that it’s time to say “never again to terrorism. Never again violence in Peru, from whatever quarter. Our country has the right to live in peace and build a future that benefits everyone.”
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