WOW AND HOW DISPIRITING DURING THIS TIME A YEAR, BUT THIS IS TO THE VATICAN WHAT THE BOSTON GLOBE WAS TO BOSTON AND WAY BEYOND!

 Drip, drip, drip…

One of Father Rupnik’s victims and there are many, says he used Ignatian discernment to manipulate her into compliance. It sounds familiar, where through discernment (think the synodal way and those  who abuse the Deposit of Faith and Catholics committed to it) to tell them the Deposit of Faith can be changed through the Sensus Fidelium and the God of surprises who leads us in unexpected ways. It truly is a manipulation to say the least! Think too, that those who resist are mocked and ridiculed and called backwards, rigid and closed minded with serious mental illnesses. 

Here are the victim’s words:

You have to understand how Ignatian discernment works: you are called to total availability and openness, and it is your spiritual father who guides you in understanding what is good and what is evil. 

If the one who guides you says God wants it and you do not obey, you are setting yourself against God. That is precisely where manipulation can creep in, as it did with Father Rupnik.

Press title for another bombshell in this scandal that reaches the highest levels of the Vatican:

Report: Vatican Investigator Says Father Rupnik and Hierarchy’s ‘Complicit Silence’ Ruined Victims’ Lives

Bishop Libanori, also a Jesuit, uncovered the women’s stories when he was sent in 2019 by the Vatican to conduct an investigation into their troubled community in Slovenia amid complaints about their current leader, the AP reported.

Excerpt:

Bishop Daniele Libanari also said the women Father Rupnik is alleged to have abused have “seen their lives ruined by the evil suffered and by the complicit silence” of the Church, the AP reported Monday.

He urged the members of the hierarchy who hid his crimes to “humbly ask the world to forgive the scandal.”

“It’s ignoble to think of reducing responsibility and diminishing the evil by dismissing those who complain with summary judgments about their mental health or, worse, their seriousness,” Bishop Libanori wrote in a Dec. 4 letter to the Slovene community members, the AP reported. “If anything, this makes the responsibility of those who took advantage of them more serious.”