ROME – In the latest development in the ongoing saga of ex-Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik, a celebrated artist now facing multiple charges of sexual abuse against adult women, the Vatican has dissolved a community of nuns he co-founded in his native Slovenia in the 1980s.
Earlier this year, the current leader of the community, Sister Ivanka Hosta, was sanctioned by the Church and ordered to pray for the victims of her own abuses and those of Fr Rupnik.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni confirmed on December 15 that “with the decree signed in recent weeks, following the apostolic visitation and having consulted those responsible for the visit, the ordinaries and other figures who know its life and work, the Loyola Community has effectively been suppressed.”
