VATICAN CITY (VATICAN CITY)
ANSA - Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata [Rome, Italy]
February 21, 2024
Slovenian ex-Jesuit ‘abused us in various ways’ say pair
Two alleged victims of world-famous Slovenian mosaic artist and ex-Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik have come out in public for the first time, saying that “the rubber wall” surrounding his alleged sex abuse has “crumbled.” They are named Mirjiam and Gloria, and are Slovenian women former members of the Ignatius of Loyola Community of which the 69-year-old Rupnik was a prominent member before being expelled three years ago.
“We knew each other in the community,” Mirjam explained in a press conference with Gloria at her side, “we were all young girls, full of ideals, but these very ideals together with our training in obedience were exploited for abuses of various kinds: of conscience, of power, spiritual, psychic, physical and often even sexual.
“We were faced with a rubber wall,” they said, “let the wall crumble.