Rupnik in front of the Vatican Court
The former Jesuit Marko Rupnikwho is accused of abuse of nuns, will have to step in front of the Vatican court. Head of Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernándezon Friday, confirmed that they are currently selecting three independent judges.
The Pope eliminated the limitation period last October.
In January, an investigation against Rupnik was completed.
He was excluded from the Jesuit order.
Along the edge of the presentation of the Pope’s book Let the poetry live In Rome, he said that the Dicastery for the doctrine of the faith « looks for judges who must have certain qualities, given that it is a media case. » As he explained, these will be people outside the dicaster. He hinted that some candidates have already been determined, but they still need to confirm their availability. The Vatican Dicastery for the doctrine of religion completed the investigation in January. Fernández is reportedly reported by the Catholic web portal Crux He said his department had conducted a study and collected all information, and now he has to set up a court. Rupnik is to be tried for spiritual abuse. In November last year, Fernández said that the Vatican Working Group was examining the possibility that spiritual abuse in church law would become a formalized crime and not just a difficult circumstance of other crimes.
Elimination of the statute of limitations
Rupnik is accused of performing sexual and psychological violence in the early 1990s over at least twenty women, especially in the Ljubljana Community in which he worked, and the Vatican has already dissolved it. A group of nuns from the Loyola Community accused Rupnik in 2021 of abusing them sexually and mentally in the 90s, but decided the dicastery to teach the religion in the Vatican after the investigation that the allegations against him had become obsolete.
In October last year, Pope Francis asked the Dicastery for the doctrine of Vera to review Rupnik’s case, and decided to eliminate the limitation period, thereby enabling the investigation. Rupnik, who was excluded from the rules of the Jesuits for several allegations of sexual and psychological abuse of nuns, has been reported by a group of Catholic journalists for several weeks at the Montefiolo Monastery in Central Italy, about 70 kilometers from Rome.
The Catholic Journalists group is in early March in the article on the web portal of the newspaper La nuova bussola quotidiana Rupnik reported that Rupnik was in the monastery of the Benedictine sisters Priscille, along with a small group of former Jesuits from the Aletti Center, which he founded and led to the outbreak of the scandal, and that he had arranged a comfortable apartment there. As they found out, there were only a few nuns left in the monastery, but they are already preparing to move to another house in San Felice Circe, a town in Latin province in Lacia. A small group of former Jesuits, led by serious sexual abuse, accused Pater Rupnik, settled into the monastery once operated by the nuns, and the nuns resided, ate with them in the same dining room and dictated rules in the monastery.
According to the authors of the reportage, the monastery of the Montefiolo was a residence, which the Jesuits from the Aletti Center already knew and attended as participants in spiritual exercises. A man who led spiritual exercises and is not too much behind the scenes of the migration of a group of Jesuit is a cardinal aNgelo de Donatisformer Vicar General of the Pope for the Roman Diocese. The Cardinal is considered to be a great Rupnik protector who rejected detailed accusations against the eliminated Slovene Jesuit as defamation and consistently praised the impeccations of the Aletti Center, while Rupnik’s victims asked for truth and justice.
