Jesuits (Society of Jesus)

New book explores deep roots of Jesuit role in current crisis

03/20/2024 at 10:27 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Chris Altieri, Crux, March 20, 2024 The pattern of behavior shown by Jesuit leadership in the management of at least one current high-profile scandal has centuries of institutional practice behind it. That’s according to one prominent historian, Ulrich Lehner of the University of Notre... read more

Brazil’s Aparecida shrine will proceed with Father Rupnik’s project

03/19/2024 at 10:04 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Eduardo Campos Lima, Our Sunday Visitor, March 19, 2024 People light candles in celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Aparecida at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in São Paulo Oct. 12, 2021. She is the patron saint of Brazil. (OSV News photo/Carla Carniel,... read more

Porn for ‘spiritual growth’: nuns detail abuse by renowned [Jesuit] priest

02/21/2024 at 5:32 PM By Kevin Edward White
By France24, February 21, 2024 Vatican City (AFP) – Two former nuns said Wednesday that a world-renowned artist priest made them take part in threesomes and watch porn so they would "grow spiritually". Slovenian mosaic artist Marko Rupnik, 69, is accused of sexually and... read more

Spanish university cancels Rupnik chapel project

01/17/2024 at 8:39 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Nicolas de Cardenas, Catholic News Agency, January 17, 2023 Spain's Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) has canceled its planned collaboration with former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, who was initially presented as the driving force behind a new campus chapel project, as first reported... read more

Ex-Jesuit Rupnik is accepted into the Slovenian diocese of Koper

10/25/2023 at 1:12 PM By Kevin Edward White
Katholisch.de, October 25, 2023 The alleged abuser Marko Rupnik, who was expelled from the Jesuit order, has been incardinated in the Slovenian diocese of Koper. The diocese confirmed this to katholisch.de. Several sources close to the Jesuit order reported this on Wednesday morning. After... read more

The Synod on Synodality’s listening ‘method’ comes from the Jesuits

10/24/2023 at 10:13 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, October 24, 2023 Synod on Synodality delegates in Rome this month are participating in something called “conversation in the Spirit,” a method of communal discernment based on prayer and listening. “Synodal listening is oriented towards... read more

Pope’s own abuse commission blasts system that leaves victims ‘wounded and in the dark’

09/27/2023 at 5:28 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Elise Ann Allen, Crux, September 27, 2023 ROME – In a bold new statement, the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, an advisory body created by Pope Francis in 2014, has condemned what they described as a failure on the part of Church authorities in abuse... read more

The stalwart media guardians of this Pope’s legacy

09/26/2023 at 7:46 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, September 25, 2023 “The Rupnik business will stain Pope Francis’s legacy, and possibly define it,” writes Christopher Altieri in Catholic World Report. The evidence is there—no doubt about that—and give Altieri due credit for making the... read more

Vatican calls claims that cardinal withdrew from synod over abuse case ‘pure fantasy’

09/24/2023 at 5:34 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Elise Ann Allen, Crux, September 23, 2023 MARSEILLE – After media reports suggesting that Spanish Cardinal Luis Ladaria’s withdrawal from the upcoming Synod of Bishops on Synodality was tied to his handling of the case of a prominent Jesuit artist accused of abuse, the Vatican... read more

Alleged Rupnik victims say Church’s pledge of ‘zero tolerance’ for sex abuse is mere PR campaign

09/20/2023 at 7:57 AM By Kevin Edward White
Crux Staff/Catholic Herald, September 20, 2023 ROME – An open letter signed by five alleged victims of Father Marko Rupnik, a former Jesuit and renowned Slovenian artist, asserts that recent events show pledges of “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse by church officials are merely a “PR... read more

‘The Water Has Been Agitated’

08/28/2023 at 6:43 PM By Kevin Edward White
Francis in conversation with Jesuits in Portugal By Antonio Spadaro, S.J., La Civilta Cattolica, August 28, 2 On August 5, 2023, during his apostolic journey to Portugal for World Youth Day, Pope Francis met with Jesuits at the Colégio de São João de Brito, a school run by the Society... read more

Nicaragua cancels legal status of Catholic Jesuit order

08/23/2023 at 3:10 PM By Kevin Edward White

Prosecutor in Bolivia asks for Church’s cooperation in clerical sexual abuse cases

07/31/2023 at 12:38 PM By Kevin Edward White

‘The 272’ Review: Slaves of Georgetown

07/30/2023 at 3:58 PM By Kevin Edward White

How the Jesuits could have laicized Rupnik, and why they should have

07/25/2023 at 9:12 AM By Kevin Edward White

Timeline: What we know about former Jesuit Marko Rupnik’s alleged abuse—and the questions that remain

06/23/2023 at 7:08 PM By Kevin Edward White

Rupnik Affair exposes leadership crisis in Jesuits, Roman Curia

06/18/2023 at 4:33 PM By Kevin Edward White

Rupnik dismissed from Jesuits

06/15/2023 at 5:35 PM By Kevin Edward White

Trips by Jesuit priest accused of abuse are transgression of restrictions, superior says

06/14/2023 at 5:28 PM By Kevin Edward White

Joe Biden’s Jesuit-run church to celebrate LGBT ‘Pride Mass’ on Wednesday

06/13/2023 at 3:04 PM By Kevin Edward White