Rupnik case: three new complaints, to add to the two which the Vatican already knows about

According to the Italian press agency, the competent Vatican office currently has five complaints from alleged victims of sexual abuse by the former Jesuit and artist Marko Rupnik. Of these, two complaints are already known, and three are new.

As is known, a group of nuns from the Loyola community accused Rupnik in 2021 of sexually and psychologically abusing them in the 1990s, but the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican decided after an investigation that the accusations against Rupnik had expired. Rupnik was expelled from the Jesuit order last June. In October, Pope Francis asked the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to review the case of Marko Rupnik, and decided to lift the statute of limitations and thereby enable an investigation.

Two former nuns from the Loyola community revealed their story to the public at a press conference on February 21. Rupnik's other three alleged victims are two former nuns and one who is still a nun.

The Italian news agency Ansa reports that one of them tells about her relationship with Rupnik, which became more and more intense, and was then marked by constant harassment at work.

Another victim joined the Loyola community in Slovenia in 1990, at the age of 24. She also tells about gradual violence, manipulation, psychological harassment, threats. Among other things, she mentions that Rupnik broke her finger to show his superiority over her. The nun then left the community in 1998.

The third alleged victim, according to the agency, met Rupnik in 1980. In her complaint, she also describes in detail the alleged sexual violence and Rupnik's constant demands for a threesome, which she always refused.

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