The priest was questioned within the Vatican for allegations of sexual connotations. The events narrated happened 30 years ago.
A Slovenian Jesuit priest named Marko Ivan Rupnik, Currently questioned by the Vatican, he has been accused by two nuns of having invited them to have a sexual threesome “for the Holy Trinity”, a fact that would have occurred more than 30 years ago.
According to what was published in the Italian newspaper Tomorrowthe nun gave her testimony indicating that she had met the man when she was 21, and he was 31.
Rupnik was then the spiritual director of a convent in Slovenia. Now she is 58 years old and she accuses that, for years, her complaints before ecclesiastical authorities were ignored.
During that time, the nun said, she would have received invitations to participate in sex parties and even watch pornographic movies. All justified, according to her claims, in the central dogma regarding the nature of God.
“Father Marko slowly and gently began to enter my psychological and spiritual world, exploiting my uncertainties and fragility and using my relationship with God to push me to have sexual experiences with him”, expressed.
In her testimony, the woman maintained that the priest had abused no less than 20 women during those years.
Priest would have abused more nuns
Therefore, the Society of Jesus issued a statement inviting possible victims of the Slovenian Jesuit Marko Rupnik, known for being the author of mosaics in churches around the world, to send a complaint in order to be heard, in what is a new scandal over the management of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
“My main concern in all this is for those who have suffered and I invite anyone who wishes to make a new complaint or who wants to discuss complaints already made to contact me. I assure you that you will be listened to with understanding and empathy.” points to the note from the major superior for the International Houses, Johan Verschueren, published on the Jesuit website.
“A few months ago we established a team of people, women and men, from various disciplines and with a variety of knowledge to deal with these situations,” the note added.
In recent days, the Jesuits admitted that Rupnik had been sanctioned with some restrictions following an investigation into sexual and psychological abuse of nuns in the 1990s, despite the fact that they had prescribed.
As explained by the Jesuits, the Department for the Doctrine of the Faith, responsible for canonical processes in matters of sexual abuse“received a complaint in 2021 once morest Father Marko Ivan Rupnik regarding his way of exercising his ministry.”
The Society of Jesus was then commissioned to open a preliminary investigation into this case and “following studying the result of this investigation, the Vatican department found that the facts in question should be considered prescribed and therefore closed the case at the beginning of October. of this year 2022”.
