No bishop was as hated by Francis, since his time as Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as the conservative Archbishop of Lima, Peru, Cardinal Cipriani Thorne (now emeritus). Since Benedict XVI's meeting for Latin American bishops in Aparecida, Brazil (2007), Bergoglio identified Cipriani as the enemy to be isolated.
Francis met Cipriani after his election, but then proceeded to remake Lima as a bastion of "progressive" Catholicism in Latin America.
Francis dismantled everything Cipriani tried to do, including the hard process of trying to put Catholicism back in the most leftist "Catholic" university in the world (the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru -- our Rorate post in the last full year of the Benedict pontificate shows the consequences of that, as both titles Pontifical and Catholic were ordered removed from it, a decision later undone by Francis). Cipriani was also accused much later (without evidence) of one count of supposed abuse decades in the past (in the same off-the-record playbook used against Cardinal Pell), and had his clerical state restricted by Francis just this past January.
So it was surprising today that Leo XIV, who was after all a bishop in northern Peru, received in audience Cardinal Cipriani. It was a true test of unity, and an evidence that the Francis past is truly past. (Bollettino)
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Another important milestone today was the publication of Leo XIV's first motu proprio, Coniuncta Cura, on some financial aspects of the Holy See (document here in Italian). It is a short document on technical matters of the financial administration of the Vatican.
What was most important about it was the simple and plain abrogation of a whole Francis document on the same matter, the Rescript of August 23, 2022. That is it. A past relevant document by Francis may simply be abrogated by a new motu proprio. A good precedent.
