Peru’s leading newspaper said it will no longer publish editorials by the cardinal and archbishop of Lima after accusing him of plagiarizing past popes in his articles.
… Juan Luis Cipriani … copied portions of the book “Communio,” written by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI, and of the encyclical “Ecclesiam Suam,” written by Pope Paul VI in two of his editorials.
… He suggested to listeners of his radio program, “Dialogues of Faith,” that the newspaper’s response was “revenge” for his inflexible opposition to abortion and gay marriage…
August 17th, 2015 at 3:55PM
Surely the only appropriate response to an accusation like this is: “Bull!”
August 17th, 2015 at 4:07PM
Took me a second to get it, Alan. Excellent.
August 17th, 2015 at 6:52PM
Peruvian prelate, full of bull,
Borrowed from Benedict’s work in full.
When he was caught at it
His answer was drat it,
There go my chances to pull the wool.
August 17th, 2015 at 7:53PM
Nice one, adam.
August 18th, 2015 at 8:28AM
Aren’t priests supposed to do this? Interesting question whether, in a secular publication but in one’s clerical role, this can be considered plagiarism.
August 18th, 2015 at 10:01AM
This is basically the MLK plagiarism defense. If Cardinal Juan were smart, he would start tossing around terms like “intertextuality” and “voice merging.” Throw in some stuff about European writers (Pope Catastrophe VI and Benny Ratz) monopolizing the means of production (i.e., words), and he’s home free.