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The once-popular mosaic artist was dismissed from the Jesuits on June 9 for failing to obey the directions of his superiors, including restrictions on his ministry imposed at the recommendation of investigators.
Editor's Note: This story was updated at 2:40 p.m. ET with a statement from the Diocese of Koper.
Father Marko Rupnik, the former Jesuit priest and mosaic artist accused of serious abuses against women, has been accepted for priestly ministry in a diocese in Slovenia.
In a statement to CNA on Wednesday, the Diocese of Koper confirmed earlier Italian and German media reports that Father Rupnik was now incardinated there.
The statement said that Father Rupnik was received into the diocese at the end of August.
The local bishop accepted Father Rupnik’s request to be received into the diocese “on the basis of the decree on Father Rupnik’s dismissal from the Jesuit order” and “and on the basis of the fact that no judicial sentence had been passed on Father Rupnik,” according to an English translation of the statement, written in Slovenian, issued by diocese’s vicar general, Slavko Rebec.
Rebec went on to cite Article 11.1 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states: “Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.”
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Editor's Note: This story was updated at 2:40 p.m. ET with a statement from the Diocese of Koper.
Father Marko Rupnik, the former Jesuit priest and mosaic artist accused of serious abuses against women, has been accepted for priestly ministry in a diocese in Slovenia.
In a statement to CNA on Wednesday, the Diocese of Koper confirmed earlier Italian and German media reports that Father Rupnik was now incardinated there.
The statement said that Father Rupnik was received into the diocese at the end of August.
The local bishop accepted Father Rupnik’s request to be received into the diocese “on the basis of the decree on Father Rupnik’s dismissal from the Jesuit order” and “and on the basis of the fact that no judicial sentence had been passed on Father Rupnik,” according to an English translation of the statement, written in Slovenian, issued by diocese’s vicar general, Slavko Rebec.
Rebec went on to cite Article 11.1 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states: “Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.”
Continued below.
UPDATE: Father Rupnik ‘Presumed Innocent’ Until Proven Guilty, Says Diocese That Welcomed Him
The once-popular mosaic artist was dismissed from the Jesuits on June 9 for failing to obey the directions of his superiors, including restrictions on his ministry imposed at the recommendation of investigators.
