[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Expert in the Fight Against Abuse: Vatican Dicastery Must Respond Regarding Father Rupnik

National Catholic Register ^ | December 8, 2022 | Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

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[Catholic Caucus] Jesuit Expert in the Fight Against Abuse: Vatican Dicastery Must Respond Regarding Father Rupnik

Father Hans Zollner, a Jesuit priest and an expert in the fight against abuse, said the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith “must respond” to questions surrounding the case of Father Marko Rupnik, a member of the Society of Jesus accused of abuse.

Father Zollner is one of the leading experts in the field of safeguarding from sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He is a member of the Vatican’s Commission for the Protection of Minors since its creation in 2014 and is the director of the Institute of Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care (IADC) at the Gregorian University in Rome.

In a statement to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language sister news agency, Father Zollner said that he believes that “it’s obvious that the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith has to respond.”

Father Zollner’s statement marks another development in the widening controversy surrounding Father Rupnik, a well-known Jesuit priest and artist who has been accused of abuse that he allegedly committed against at least nine women.

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Father Matarazzo, who is also a delegate for the social apostolate and abuse prevention for the dioceses of Sicily, criticized that the [Father] “Rupnik case” is “a tsunami of injustice, lack of transparency, questionable management, dysfunctional activity, personalized work, apostolic community sacrificed to the leader, and unequal treatment.”

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