Father Rupnik’s Loyola Community Closed Down

The sisters of the Loyola Community received a decree from the Dicastery for Religious Life on 14 December informing them of the dissolution of their community. The reason is serious problems in the exercise of authority and in the way they live together.

The community was founded in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The dissolution must take place within one year.

Rupnik co-founded the Loyola community in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with Sister Ivanka Hosta more than three decades ago.

According to one alleged Italian victim, there were 41 sisters in the early 1990s and Father Rupnik managed to fornicate with almost 20 of them.

Rupnik was the community's chaplain until September 1993, when he and several sisters left the community in Ljubljana. They went to Rome, where Rupnik opened his school of art and theology, the Aletti Centre.

Hosta was superior general from 1994 to 2023. She was removed from leadership of the community in June and ordered to have no contact with current or former members of her community for three years.

As an "external penance" she was ordered to make a monthly pilgrimage to a Marian shrine for a year to pray "for the victims of Father Marko Ivan Rupnik's behaviour and for all the female religious of the Loyola community" whom she is accused of harming.

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