It has come as something of a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a young couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages.

Amidst backlash over allegations of sexual abuse against a once-powerful Peruvian cardinal that went public earlier this week, both the prelate’s successor and the episcopal conference have backed the alleged victim and Pope Francis.

Pope Francis Friday met with the first survivor to publicly denounce abuses in the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), confirming its suppression and assuring his intention to put victims at the center of the process.

A retired archbishop who for decades was Peru's leading Catholic cleric has been disciplined following allegations of sexual abuse, the Vatican has said, confirming press reports. Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne denies the accusations.

The sanctions imposed on Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne include restrictions “relating to his public activity, place of residence and use of insignia,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said.

The once-powerful archbishop of Peruvian capital Lima and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei has acknowledged that the Vatican had imposed sanctions on him in 2019 following an allegation of sexual abuse.

The Peruvian cardinal revealed that in August 2018, the Holy See informally informed him of the existence of a complaint against him, without providing details.

Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the first cardinal of Opus Dei, said on Jan. 26 that abuse accusations made against him in a Spanish daily El País are "completely false," while acknowledging he was sanctioned by the Vatican in the past and saying that the sanctions were lifted by Pope Francis.

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, a retired Peruvian archbishop, faces Vatican-imposed restrictions following sexual abuse allegations. Although Cipriani denies the charges, he has accepted the sanctions from 2019,

The latest blow that the Pope has dealt to Opus Dei is the public and definitive confirmation of the disciplinary punishment of the over-eighty-year-old Peruvian cardinal, former archbishop of

The Vatican has issued a decree recognizing the heroic virtues of Servant of God Luigina Sinapi, declaring her “venerable.”

The first cardinal to belong to Opus Dei denied an allegation he abused a teenager in the sacrament of confession.