There are currently five complaints
from alleged sex-abuse victims of world-famous Slovenian mosaic
artist and ex-Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik at the Vatican office
that handles such cases, Vatican sources said Wednesday.
Two of the complaints to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the
Faith are already known and three of them new, they said.
The two came out in public for the first time in late February,
saying that "the rubber wall" surrounding Rupnik's alleged sex
abuse has "crumbled."
They are named Mirjiam and Gloria, and are Slovenian women
former members of the Ignatius of Loyola Community of which the
69-year-old Rupnik was a prominent member before being expelled
three years ago.
"We knew each other in the community," Mirjam explained in a
press conference with Gloria at her side, "we were all young
girls, full of ideals, but these very ideals together with our
training in obedience were exploited for abuses of various
kinds: of conscience, of power, spiritual, psychic, physical and
often even sexual.
"We were faced with a rubber wall," they said, "let the wall
crumble.
Pope Francis took the surprise decision to reopen Rupnik's case
personally last October, ordering a surprise derogation to the
statute of limitations on his alleged crimes.
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