Rupnik Victims, Advocates Decry Failures of Vatican Justice, by Christopher R. Altieri

By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report, February 21, 2024

Christopher R. Altieri is a journalist, editor and author of three books, including Reading the News Without Losing Your Faith (Catholic Truth Society, 2021). He is contributing editor to Catholic World Report.

“Truth and justice shouldn’t be an extraordinary ask in the Catholic Church in 2024 …” Anne Barrett Doyle of the watchdog and advocacy group, BishopAccountability.org, told CWR, “I believe that at heart Pope Francis is opposed to reform…”

In some of the strongest remarks to date, a senior figure at a leading watchdog and advocacy group has cast strong doubt on Pope Francis’s commitment to reform of the Church’s justice system.

The remarks to the Catholic World Report came on a day the Vatican made its own statements suggesting that the ordinary organs of ecclesiastical justice are still trying to decide what to do with disgraced former Jesuit celebrity mosaic artist Fr. Marko Rupnik, accused of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of more than a dozen victims. ….

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