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.
ROME (CNS) The superior general of the Jesuits confirmed that Father Marko Rupnik, a Slovenian Jesuit and artist in restricted ministry because of abuse allegations, earlier had been excommunicated for what canon law describes as the absolution of an accomplice in a sin against the Sixth Commandment, a reference to sex.
Father Rupnik incurred excommunication automatically when he heard the confession and granted absolution, but the excommunication was confirmed by the then-Congregation for
The worldwide leader of the Jesuit order has acknowledged that Father Ivan Rupnik was excommunicated in 2019: two years before a new complaint of sexual abuse was brought against him.
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