Jesuit order reaches out to Rupnik victims

March 26, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: The Society of Jesus has reached out to women religious who reported that they were abused by Father Marko Rupnik, offering “a repair process aimed at healing wounds.”

The nature of the Jesuit order’s response will be “studied on a case-by-case basis,” says Laura Sgro, a lawyer representing the Rupnik victims.

Father Johan Verschueren, who contacted the victims on behalf of the Jesuits, disclosed that the order had offered Father Rupnik an opportunity to “take responsibility for his actions, repent, ask for forgiveness and start a path of purification and therapy.” When he refused, he was dismissed from the Jesuit order. Rupnik remains a priest in good standing, pending a long-awaited canonical trial.

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• Posted by: grateful1 - Mar. 28, 2025 9:14 PM ET USA

  I pray that justice delayed hasn't already become justice denied. The lack of urgency from the Vatican, which continues to display Rupnik's so-called "art," is sickening.