Pope restores Jesuit excommunicated for violent assaults on women and gives him an honorary award. Pope is even keeping him as his advisor.
Quote:A prominent Jesuit priest has been continuing to practise his ministry despite the fact that it was restricted by the Vatican in January 2022 following allegations of sexual misconduct made against him.
According to reports on a number of Italian news sites, 68-year-old Father Marko Ivan Rupnik was in January 2022 ordered to stop practising his ministry following a series of complaints about his conduct going back to 1992.
However, despite the ban, Fr Rupnik received an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Brazil on the 30th of November. He has also featured in a regular YouTube slot every Sunday commenting on the Sunday Gospel. The Diocese of Rome also posted a video of Rupnik speaking about Eucharistic adoration in February this year.
Fr Rupnik is a high profile figure in Rome and known as a friend and advisor to Pope Francis.
The first reports of “gruesome” psychological and sexual violence by Rupnik date back to 1992 when a solution was found in agreement with the bishop of Ljubljana to remove Rupnik from the Community.
The Vatican received a complaint against him in 2021 but declined to carry out a canonical process due to the statute of limitations (the complaint did not include minors), according to a statement released by the Jesuits on the 2 December.
However, following a further investigation by his religious order into allegations of abuse against religious sisters in Slovenia, Rupnik was in January 2022 banned from hearing confessions or conducting spiritual direction.
Rupnik had abused and violently assaulted consecrated women in the Loyola Community.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
