The Rupnik case explodes again, creating further disorientation. While heated debates are underway in various episcopal conferences whether or not to destroy the sacred mosaic works of the ex-Jesuit serial abuser, repeatedly accused by dozens of women and for this reason already excommunicated by the Dicastery of the Faith even if then mysteriously rehabilitated (the gossip claims that it was the pope his friend), the Vatican has nevertheless published in these days a booklet using his paintings as a tool for global catechesis. Rupnik's images were used for the liturgical calendar of March despite the victims having made it known that every sign of rehabilitation, even the smallest, is a stab for them.
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Father Marko Rupnik is a very famous and rich ex-Jesuit thanks to his decades-long activity as an artist and mosaicist, friend of cardinals and even Pope Francis. He was expelled from the Jesuit order because he was recognized as responsible for multiple sexual abuses on nuns. He then managed - it is not clear how - to have a decree of excommunication against him annulled by the Dicastery of the Faith, remain a priest (although no longer belonging to the order founded by Saint Ignatius) and be incardinated in a Slovenian diocese that said it was unaware of the canonical procedural past of Father Marko Rupnik. Even the Slovenian government of Prime Minister Robert Golob reacted with harshness to the decision of the Diocese of Capodistria to welcome among the clergy - under the guidance of Bishop Jurij Bizjak - Don Marko Rupnik, who thanks to this passage could normally resume his priestly ministry.
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The Pope, given the clamor of the case, in recent months has decided to have the Dicastery of the Faith re-examine the case. With a statement, Bergoglio informed that he had 'decided to derogate from the prescription to allow the conduct of a trial'.
In the Vatican the issue is a source of embarrassment and silence. Some time ago the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors wrote a letter to all the alleged victims of Rupnik: 'The reason for this email is to share the concern about the treatment that the victims have received during a process that we know has been extremely painful and frustrating for you, for your families, for your loved ones and for an important part of the Church, regarding the listening, the investigation, the follow-up, the support and the communication that have been provided to you'.
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The Jesuit Johan Verschueren on behalf of the Jesuits had spoken with the bishop of Capodistria, Bizjak, after learning that he had been incardinated in Slovenia. 'I wrote a comprehensive letter to the bishop about the situation and the many complaints or cases we were facing, and I asked him if he had maintained his position, aimed at incardinating Rupnik, after being informed', Verschueren said in an email to the Associated Press. Verschueren was referring to the only canonical sanction suffered by Rupnik after a guilty verdict: the famous 2020 excommunication for using the confessional absolving a woman with whom he had had sexual relations. But in defense of Rupnik, several cardinals have intervened at various times and in different moments. For example Angelo De Donatis, vicar of Rome who even questioned the Vatican's only punishment in 2020.
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