Talk:Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne

Incredible claim about Cipriani's support for death squads.

The assertion that Cdl. Cipriani said that it was "treason against the fatherland" to suggest that the government had been involved in a massacre seemed oddly worded to me, like the sort of quote someone would make up to connect someone to Naziism. The link provided not only did not support that claim, but as it was a press document for the background of members of the Vatican consistory on the economy, it would have been bizarre to have included such a scandalous comment. Therefore, I deleted the quote as a fabrication. If Cdl. Cipriani did oppose any such investigation, would someone please find an accurate citation with more accurate wording?

Objectivity

I do not think the article is objective, for it is biased against Cardinal Cipriani and his membership with Opus Dei.

The first paragraph says it all: "for which he has gained some notoriety." As if to justify this assertion, the length of the portion on criticism is even longer than the rest of the article. No mention is made whatsoever about the positive contributions of Cardinal Cipriani on the church and the faithful in Lima. Despite the sympathy of the press for Cardinal Cipriani during the difficult hostage-taking at the Japanese embassy, his positive participation therein elicited only a single statement that "he ministered to the Japanese and Peruvian hostages."

I suggest that this article, which is really more of an unprofessional and amateurish potshot at Cardinal Cipriani, be totally revised. It should merit neither space nor attention of this sort in Wikipedia. Contributors should aim for excellence, objectivity, and accuracy by presenting both sides of the picture.

Rrcs law (talk) 05:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Statement on human rights

This article has two totally contradictory paragraphs on his famous statement on human rights. The first reads

Cipriani Thorne is infamous in Peru for once saying "Los derechos humanos son una cojudez" ("human rights are bollocks"), by which he meant some secular and, in his view, radical understandings of human rights. Like the broader Catholic Church, Cipriani Thorne is acutely aware of some of the potential or actual incompatibilities between some contemporary understandings of human rights and the Christian worldview.

The second says

Cardinal Cipriani never said "Human Rights are bollocks". What he said was "La Coordinadora De Derechos Humanos es una cojudez", or "Human Rights Coordinator is a bollock". Coordinadora De Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Coordinator) is a NGO which is in fact an organization composed of people with leftist tendencies.

Either he said "los derechos humanos son una cojudez" or he didn't. It can't be both ways. I notice that Mario Vargas Llosa says he did say it in Caretas. Does anyone know if Llosa was correct? --Descendall 18:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

While I know this'll seem extremely lame, I've removed all of that since NONE of it was cited. 68.39.174.238 03:28, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Membership of Opus Dei

I thought it strange that Cipriani Thorne should be called "the first declared member of the Opus Dei to be made a cardinal". He is certainly the first member of Opus Dei to be made a cardinal. What is the value of the word "declared"? Anonimus 19:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

No idea. His membership to the "Opus Dei" is one of the most used arguments against him. Messhermit 01:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

This is interesting. Used against him for what? Against him for becoming a cardinal? Bolinda (talk) 05:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)