Agreement at Lima’s pontifical university

On Friday 14 October the assembly of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) approved a new university statute negotiated between the university authorities and the Vatican, writes Francis McDonagh.

The statute is designed to end the dispute between the PUCP and the Church, revolving around the person of Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the Archbishop of Lima, the university’s Grand Chancellor.

Under the new statute the Archbishop of Lima will no longer be automatically Grand Chancellor, but the post will be occupied by a bishop appointed by the president of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference or by the Pope.

Present at the meeting of the assembly were the five members of the episcopal committee appointed last month by the Bishops’ Conference to be part of the government of the university.