Fr. Marko Rupnik will face an internal Jesuit process addressing allegations of spiritual and sexual abuse.

The Society of Jesus has announced a new canonical process against Fr. Marko Rupnik, SJ, the priest and well known religious artist accused of sexually abusing dozens of women religious over decades.

The canonical process is internal to the Jesuits, and could result in the priest’s expulsion from the order, the Jesuits have explained.

The new legal process, announced Feb. 21 in a statement from the society’s interprovincial house in Rome, follows new allegations against the priest.

Those accusations were made after the Jesuit order asked for any additional victims of Rupnik to come forward in December last year, after news broke that the priest had been found guilty of a crime against the sacrament of penance and briefly excommunicated in 2020.

Since then, the society said Tuesday, the internal team responsible for handling…