A Slovenian priest who is said to be close to the Pope has been accused of inviting two nuns to take part in a ‘Holy Trinity’ threesome. Marko Ivan Rupnik, 68, was accused by a former nun of using his ‘psycho-spiritual’ control over her some three decades ago to have sex, including group sex, and watch pornographic films.
At the time of the allegations, Rupnik, who is known in the church for his artwork, was a spiritual director of a convent in Slovenia, and the former nun, now 58, has described how her complaints against the priest were ignored. Rupnik is now at the center of a scandal that has engulfed the Jesuits, a Catholic order of priests and brothers, of which Pope Francis is a member.
The former nun told the Italian investigative newspaper Domani on Sunday in an explosive testimony: ‘Father Marko started slowly and sweetly getting inside my psychological and spiritual world, exploiting my uncertainties and fragility and using my relationship with God to push me into sexual experiences with him.’
The nun claimed Rupnik had groomed her, had sex with her, and bullied her into silence during her time in the Slovenian convent between 1987 and 1994. She claimed Rupnik had asked her and another nun to have sex with him, saying they would replicate the three-way relationship between God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
She said she believed Rupnik had abused as many as 20 women. She detailed years of sexual abuse and spiritual manipulation by Rupnik and said she made repeated efforts to turn him in only to face Jesuit and other superiors who routinely protected Rupnik at her expense.
‘It was truly an abuse of conscience,’ said the nun. She said that her first complaint about his behavior dated from 1994 in Slovenia but that it was ignored as Rupnik’s community – first in Slovenia, then in Rome – grew and gained an international following.
In the meantime, other sisters were similarly harmed, she said, describing the use of pornography, humiliation and multiple partners ‘in the image of the Trinity’ in Rupnik’s spiritual and sexual abuse. ‘He should have been stopped 30 years ago,’ the woman told Domani.
Her allegations forced Pope Francis’s Jesuit order on Sunday to ask any more victims to come forward with complaints against Rupnik. It emerged that Rupnik has essentially been let off the hook by the Vatican twice despite devastating testimony by women who said he sexually and spiritually abused them. (SOURCE)
