(25 Jan 2025)
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Vatican City – 25 January 2025
1. Wide of Saint Peter’s Basilica
2. Various of former Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV – Catholic group based in Peru) member José Enrique Escardó walking
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Enrique Escardó, former Sodalitium Christianae Vitae member and abuse advocate:
"I already knew it (details about Cardinal Cipriani) and I had been saying it. I had already found out and I said it in some interviews. But as I have always said, (Cardinal Juan Luis) Cipriani was the cardinal of Opus Dei that the Sodalitium needed, and for me this confirmation is simply what I was saying a long time ago and now has been made public. Yes, I knew this was happening and it’s not news to me."
4. Mid of Escardó talking
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Enrique Escardó, former Sodalitium Christianae Vitae member and abuse advocate:
"I entered (Pope Francis’ office) and we greeted each other. I explained who I was. He already knew the case perfectly, because he has been working on it a lot. But I wanted to tell him about the abuses, at least the most important ones I suffered. And that was a very intense moment, because when I told him, I also broke down and the pope put on a face as if he was in pain. I mean, he didn’t talk much, almost nothing. He listened to me all the time, but his body did talk a lot, his face, his look."
6. Dome of Saint Peter’s Basilica
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) José Enrique Escardó, former Sodalitium Christianae Vitae member and abuse advocate:
"That (denouncement of Escardó) generated a whole war against me, against the magazine that has lasted the last 25 years."
8. Various of Saint Peter’s Basilica
STORYLINE:
A former member of the influential Peruvian-based movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, José Enrique Escardó, discussed meeting with Pope Francis on Friday and commented on recent details regarding Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne.
He said they discussed the dissolution of the movement and the need to keep victims front and center as the Vatican dismantles the group and tends to its members.
“He already knew the case perfectly because he has been working on it a lot,” he told The Associated Press on Saturday just outside St. Peter’s Square.
“I wanted to tell him about the abuses, at least the most important ones I suffered. And that was a very intense moment because when I told him, I also broke down and the Pope put on a face as if he was in pain,” he added.
The once-powerful archbishop of Lima, Peru and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican had imposed sanctions on him in 2019 following an allegation of sexual abuse, but he strongly denied any wrongdoing.
Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, 81, penned a letter of response after Spain’s El País newspaper detailed the allegations against him in its latest instalment of exposing cases of clergy sexual abuse in the Spanish-speaking Catholic Church. Cipriani called the allegations “completely false.”
"I already knew it (details about Cardinal Cipriani) and I had been saying it," said Escardó
"This confirmation is simply what I was saying a long time ago and now has been made public," he added.
Cipriani, who led the Peruvian church for two decades before his retirement in 2019, was the first cardinal of Opus Dei, the conservative movement that was founded by the Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá in 1928, and has more than 90,000 members in 70 countries.
Cipriani was archbishop when the first victims presented formal accusations against Sodalitium in 2011 to the church.
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