Father Arturo Sosa has revealed that the Slovenian priest-artist was condemned in 2019 for sexual assault related to the confessional. The Vatican then lifted the excommunication.
Father Marko Rupnik, SJ. / Screenshot Vatican NewsDenver Newsroom, Dec 7, 2022 / 21:25 pm (CNA).Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, a well-known Jesuit priest and artist, has been accused of abuse he allegedly committed in the early 1990s against at least nine consecrated women of the Loyola Community, a Slovian community co-founded by Rupnik and Sister Ivanka Hosta.According to an official statement from the Society of Jesus, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith received a complaint against the Slovenian priest and requested that a preliminary investigation be launched.The investigation was carried out by a Dominican religious who heard the testimony of several people.During the preliminary investigation, precautionary measures were taken against Rupnik, such as the prohibition of "exercising the sacrament of Confession, spiritual direction and giving the Spiritual Exercises," according to the official statement released by the Society of Jesus on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2022, in
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The Society of Jesus has released a statement (English translation) confirming that it has restricted the ministry of one of its most prominent members, the theologian and artist Father Marko Ivan Rupnik.
Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, a Jesuit artist who founded the Centro Aletti for East-West cultural dialogue in Rome, has been accused of sexually abusing at least three nuns in Slovenia in 1992 and 1993.