Panel of judges established for the canonical trial of Marko Rupnik

Rupnik case: Cardinal Fernandez, "has found the judges for the trial"

"The panel of judges for the canonical trial" of Marko Rupnik, the former Jesuit accused of abusing several nuns, has been set up. Giving the news to journalists, on the sidelines of the presentation in the Vatican Press Office of the new formulary for the Mass on the custody of creation, was Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The College, the cardinal announced, "is made up of judges who are all independent and external to our Dicastery": "The idea was, if possible, to dispel the idea that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith or the Holy See had any interest or were under pressure. People were chosen who would not give rise to any suspicion'. As for possible predictions on the start date of the trial, Fernandez recalled that "there are technical deadlines, such as notifying the victims. We are working with the necessary confidentiality'. Asked about the excommunication first imposed and then lifted on Rupnik, the Prefect explained that "it happens much more often than one imagines, sometimes even within the same day".

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