Scandal heaped upon scandal. Rupnik becomes incardinated priest in Slovenia.

RUPNIK HAS FOUND WELCOME. NOW HE IS FREE. THE NUNCIO: “THERE ARE NO CONVICTIONS”.

Marko Ivan Rupnik was received in a Slovenian diocese. He can now exercise his priestly ministry freely.

When you enjoy top-level coverage there is nothing to fear. Marko Ivan Rupnik, the former Slovenian Jesuit who was dismissed from the Society of Jesus following the leak of news regarding canonical crimes which were treated in an "anomalous" way, so to speak, has always acted with this conviction.

On 1 December 2022 Silere non possum announced that the artist had been convicted for having absolved his accomplice in the sin against the sixth commandment. It was thus established by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that the priest had incurred latae sentencentiae excommunication. After a few days, Pope Francis revoked the excommunication without explaining why. Shortly thereafter, further complaints regarding abuses committed by Rupnik reached the ministry. The procedure, even in that case, was treated anomalously and the Pope did not take the time to intervene on the prescription.

Rupnik in Koper

While Francis, in his numerous interviews, spends time talking about transparency and truth, in the case of Marko Ivan Rupnik he proceeds through silence and absolute prohibitions on speaking a word.

When we reported that Ivan Bresciani found a home in Ascoli Piceno, we also said that if the Society of Jesus or the individual dioceses had not made a pronouncement on the destination of Marko Ivan Rupnik we would have been forced to report who and how would have welcomed this presbyter who he was found guilty by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of a very serious crime.

This is necessary because this man will continue to care for souls and carry forward his "artistic work" and transparency regarding the incardination of priests is also a legal obligation. The people of God, but also the brothers of Rupnik, must know whether this priest can practice lawfully or not.

On 13 June 2023, a full month before being dismissed from the order to which he belonged, the priest sent a letter to Monsignor Jurij Bizjak, Bishop of Koper, with whom he had resumed contact for some time. In the letter Rupnik asked to be welcomed ad experimentum in his diocese of origin.

Bizjak met with the Apostolic Nuncio to Slovenia, the French Monsignor Jean-Marie Speich. This is Bergoglio's first Episcopal ordination as Pope. In that homily the Pope said: “Never make a presbyter wait; he asks for a hearing? Reply immediately! Be close to them."

And in fact Speich was not long in coming in this matter and reported to Bishop Bizjak: “The incardination in Koper is an excellent solution. No problem because there are no convictions anyway."

It's clear, the sentence Rupnik received in May 2020 has clearly been put on the back burner. Since when does the Pope remove excommunication (i.e. the effect of a behavior) does the behavior itself also cease? In simple words, if I grant you "Grace" it does not mean that you did not behave in that way or that that sentence did not actually occur.

Monsignor Bizjak, however, consulted not only with Speich but also with the cardinal vicar Angelo De Donatis and the great canonist Giacomo Incitti. Yes, do you remember that priest who even went out of his way to issue a judgment (without having any title) on the work of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith? This man's competence is clear and Urbaniana has demonstrated once again how much its professors do not know the law. Since when can a professor, without any pontifical title, pass judgment on the actions of the highest dicastery of the Roman Curia which deals with delicta graviora?

A few days after receiving Rupnik's letter, on June 20, 2023, the Bishop of Koper accepted Rupnik's request. The priest can now freely exercise his ministry. The situation is more serious than before. As we had said, in fact, for Rupnik, getting rid of the Society of Jesus would have been positive. Only the Jesuit order had imposed restrictions (although it emerged that it never monitored compliance with these restrictions). Today, after everything that has emerged, Rupnik is even more free and can peacefully exercise (he, not us) his priestly ministry. He can administer the sacrament of penance, spiritual direction, preach exercises, etc...

All the documentation arrived in Borgo Santo Spirito and someone turned up their noses. “In fact – they report – Rupnik did not ask to exercise his ministry there but wanted to continue holding spiritual exercises and making mosaics”.

Basically Rupnik wants to continue doing what he likes. There's nothing new under the sun about him. Yet the code attempts to combat those who are clerics vagantes, even Pope Francis himself in one of his countless modifications to the text has established: "so that headless or wandering clerics are absolutely not allowed". We know it well, the rules apply to everyone except friends. It wouldn't occur to some priest to ask their bishop to draw little drawings on the wall! The next day he would be resigned from the clerical state without any ifs or buts. For Rupnik, however, anything is possible.

“When we received the communication from the bishop of Koper we limited ourselves to communicating to him the document with Rupnik's dismissal from the Society of Jesus. We cannot do more than that. It is clear that if the nuncio and the bishop proceed with this conviction it means that there is Someone who protects Rupnik who is much more important than this curia", reports a Jesuit in Borgo Santo Spirito.

Pope Francis is not going back

Rupnik and his followers at the Aletti Center don't have any problems. Not only did Incitti conduct a visit inside the Center which is something aberrant but he also gave Bishop Bizjak a draft to be delivered to the departments for Rupnik's incardination. Giacomo Incitti was made out to be the one who, in a completely impartial way, would have conducted a very rigorous canonical visit but he became the one who worked hardest to fix Rupnik following the "great Passion" experienced because of the media.

And this is how – as P. Dysmas de Lassus explains – the executioner becomes a victim and is surrounded by that aura of sanctity that he is looking for so much.

Two weights and two measures. The method is always the same. If Francis is so harsh towards his enemies or those he doesn't even know, he becomes incredibly magnanimous with those who are his friends and have full wallets. Don Rupnik, we now have to call him that, is known within the clergy for being a person who has always done what he wanted. In Rome he opened his Centro Aletti, then convinced De Donatis to approve a priestly fraternity, he toured around the world (with the approval of the Society of Jesus) doing his mosaics and his exercises. All without ever spending a day in the parish. But shouldn't the priest have the smell of sheep? Here the only smell he can smell is that of paint and money. Today, after everything that has emerged regarding the figure of this Slovenian priest, thanks to the Pope and his friends (among whom there are De Donatis, Incitti, Bizjak, Speich, etc..), he will continue to do what he wants. Maybe with some fictitious assignment, only on paper, so as to be able to receive more money.

This is what we get to when the "fight against abuse" is simply a way to get rid of those priests and bishops who are inconvenient. This is the method of hypocrisy for which Christ never felt any mercy.

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Cathcon:  Getting near the smell of the sheep; more like the odour of corruption, the spice of vice and the fragrance of money.