Accusations Against Famous Jesuit Artist

The worldly Slovenian Jesuit and highly decorated artist, Father Mark Rupnik, 68, based in Rome since 1991, has been accused by a consecrated woman of psychological and sexual violence, writes SilereNonPossum.it (December 1).

• Rupnik created the mosaics in Redemptoris Mater Chapel (Apostolic Palace), in the basilicas of Fátima and San Giovanni Rotondo, on the façade of the Lourdes Sanctuary, in Madrid Cathedral, in the John Paul II Sanctuary in Krakow, the John Paul II Sanctuary in Washington, and many other important churches.

• Presently, he works in the national shrine of Aparecida in São Paulo, Brazil.

• Rupnik is the director of the Centro Aletti, which John Paul II personally inaugurated in 1993, and for which Francis presided a 2016 Eucharist in the Vatican for the centre which is run by a group of Jesuits and a female Secular Institute. It offers a common life, theological and artistic studies, and publishes books.

• Already in 1995, a consecrated woman reported that she suffered “psycho-physical-spiritual abuse” from Rupnik who “forced me with pressure and blackmail, to do things that I reported in the appropriate forum.”

• "After my first complaint, no one helped me, neither the Community, nor the Ljubljana Archbishop, nor Fr Rupnik's spiritual director [likely: Cardinal Tomáš Špidlík, +2010], with whom I spoke and tried to explain what had happened.”

• The woman was called to testify but no measures were taken.

• Rupnik was confessor and spiritual director in her community which was secretly put under a commissary in 2021 who presented the outcome in January 2022.

• On 3 January 2022, Francis received Rupnik.

• In May 2022, Rupnik preached a retreat to clergy in Larino, Campobasso.

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