Rupnik’s Loyola Community Boycotts Dissolution, Vatican Extends Deadline
On 20 October 2023, the same dicastery had ordered the closure of the community within one year. The pontifical delegate to oversee the dissolution is Monsignor Amedeo Cencini.
The community of nuns was founded in 1982 by Ivanka Hosta and former Jesuit Marko Rupnik, who fornicated with many of the nuns.
Monsignor Cencini planned to sell the property and set up a fund to help the former nuns find a new life, for example as consecrated diocesan virgins. But almost nothing has happened in the last year.
The excuse given is the alleged "complexity of the administrative issues". In reality, Ivanka Hosta - who helped Rupnik in his misdeeds - seems to be boycotting the dissolution.
She acts as if nothing bad had happened. Since 2023, she has been living in an apartment in Braga, Portugal, and still appears as a lector at Eucharists or as an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion in the cathedral. In June she took part in the diocesan synod.
The archbishop of Braga is Monsignor José Garcia Cordeiro, 57.
The new Vatican decree adds that there will be no regrouping in any way around Ivanka Hosta. All the vows of the remaining 28 nuns have been cancelled as of 20 October 2024.
The property of the community is remarkable. It consists of the motherhouse in Slovenia and nine other houses: three in Slovenia (Ljubljana and Maribor), one near the Vatican, one in Goiânia, Brazil, one in the historic centre of Trieste, one in Poland, one in St. Petersburg, Russia, and one in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
Depending on who owns the property, the Vatican can do little to prevent the community from existing.
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