Slovenian RC bishop incardinates ex-Jesuit artist after clean chit from Rome
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
A Slovenian bishop has offered his episcopal patronage to a celebrity priest who has been accused of abusing over 25 nuns and who even engaged in a sexual threesome with two nuns in a so-called imitation of the Holy Trinity.
Monsignor Slavko Rebec confirmed to media on Wednesday that world-renowned mosaic artist Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik has been incardinated by vicar general Bp. Jurij Bizjak into the diocese of Koper in Rupnik’s native Slovenia.
The abuser priest is a close friend of Pope Francis and was excommunicated by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in May 2020 for absolving a sexual partner in confession. Rupnik was received into the diocese of Koper at the end of August 2023, Rebec said.
Rupnik’s Rights
The disgraced Jesuit artist, who was swiftly rehabilitated by the Apostolic See within a month of his excommunication, was received into Koper diocese based on his dismissal from the Society of Jesus and because he had not been under the penalty of a judicial sentence, the vicar general noted.
“Until such time as the above sentence is pronounced on Rupnik, he enjoys all the rights and duties of diocesan priests,” the Rebec added, citing Article 11 of the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
In a letter to Pope Francis last month, Rupnik’s victims who served as nuns in the Loyola Community, blasted the pope and the diocese of Rome for whitewashing Rupnik’s abuse, saying they were “left speechless” by Rome’s cover-up of the serial abuser.
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