Is Rupnik finally about to receive justice?

Some good news, finally, from the Vatican on the Rupnik case: it was announced that the notorious abuser of 30 nuns and occult-artist will soon be subject to an independent investigation.

Cardinal Fernandez, unusually this time the bearer of good news, reported that the panel “is made up of judges who are all independent and external to our dicastery” in order “to dissolve the idea that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith or the Holy See had any interest or were subject to pressure. People were chosen who would not give rise to any suspicion.”

It is certainly to be hoped that the individuals comprising the panel and will actually be independent and not secret minions of Rupnik’s – a man whose reach seems to be enormous.

Rupnik’s victims are pleased at the move, and their lawyer said “will certainly cooperate fully in reconstructing the facts and seeking the truth. We hope that this case will be concluded as soon as possible and that it will finally bring comfort to the victims.”

The news outlet responsible for bringing so much of the details of the Rupnik case to out attention is Silere non possum. This group interviewed victims and traced many appointments in the Dicastery for Communications back to the influence of Rupnik. This explains why Rupnik’s disturbing artwork continued to be promoted by the Vatican for years after his abuse was made public.

For reference, a timeline is given below to show how long the Vatican has known that Rupnik is an abuser and blaphemer: the first credible accusations were brought to the Jesuit’s attention back in 1995.

The Rupnik Timeline

  • 1995: first allegations1 against Rupnik reported: secret investigation led by Mgr. Daniele Libanori, SJ
  • 2016, April: Pope Francis celebrates Mass for the Aletti Centre.
  • 2020: Rupnik is quietly excommunicated, latae sententiae, for having absolved in confession a person with whom he had engaged in sexual relations.
  • 2020: excommunication is lifted almost immediately.2
  • 2021: investigation by Vatican into Rupnik’s Aletti community
  • 2021, Dec: news of Rupnik’s investigation, latae sententiae excommunication and its subsequent lifting were published by Italian outlet Silere non possum.
  • 2022, Jan: Pope Francis meets with Rupnik.
  • 2022, May: Rupnik preaches a clergy retreat in Italy.
  • 2022, Dec: Rupnik suspended by Jesuits
  • 2023, June: Rupnik expelled from the Jesuits for refusing to obey restrictions
  • 2023, October: Diocese of Koper in Rupnik’s native Slovenia announces that it incardinated Father Rupnik in its diocese In August.
  • 2023, October: After pushback over Rupnik’s incardination in Slovenia, Pope Francis lifts statute of limitations, allowing DDF to investigate him.3
  • 2024, August: evidence that Pope Francis continues to hang Rupnik’s art in his apartment.
  • 2025, Jan: evidence that Pope Francis keeps another Rupnik artwork in his study.
  • 2025, Feb: retired bishop of the Diocese of Koper says that the priest “continues his work all over the world.”
  • 2025, June 2025: Vatican News removes artwork by Rupnik from its website
  • 2025, July: DDF announces Rupnik will be investigated by an independent panel
  1. His alleged victim reported: “After my first complaint, nobody helped me, neither the Community, nor the Archbishop of Ljubljana then, nor the spiritual director of Fr. Rupnik with whom I spoke trying to explain what had happened. All of them, even the Jesuit superiors of Fr. Rupnik and those who became aware of the facts, decided to cover everything with a blanket of silence.” ↩︎
  2. According to Cardinal Fernandez, this practice happens “much more often than one might imagine.” ↩︎
  3. The Vatican said the decision was made after “the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors brought to the pope’s attention that there were serious problems in the handling of the Father Marko Rupnik case and lack of outreach to victims.” ↩︎

Papal Preacher’s Unbelievable Blasphemy

By now, you have probably heard that Pope Bergoglio has replaced his heterodox papal household preacher with a new and even more extreme heterodox preacher. This is yet another example of the Pope’s modus operandi of teaching by example, rather than by his words which – at least sometimes – can sound quite orthodox.

The appointment comes right on the heels of his well-publicised meeting with a transgender hermit – the biological woman who lives as a man and has apparently taken religious vows. The mockery being perpetrated by this pontificate and its orbit really knows no bounds.

Blasphemy

This article explains how the former preacher, Padre Cantalamessa was appointed by John Paul II in 1980 – indicating the extent of the damage done by that man. The new appointment, Father Roberto Pasolini, is even worse – he has blasphemously suggested that the Roman centurion of the Gospels had a homosexual relationship with his servant, and even worse, that Our Lord may have been a sodomite. (You can watch the original video of Pasolini’s sermon in Italian here)

This only proves the admonition of Scripture in the first chapter of St. Paul’s letter to the Romans: that the hearts of those who ‘change the truth of God into a lie’ will be ‘darkened’ and they will be ‘given up to a reprobate sense’. (Romans 1: 21-32)

If you want to see some real weasel words, look at this extract from the transcript of this man’s deplorable talk:

Now, a certain condemnation of what we could define homosexuality emerges in the Bible, even if we have made a concept a noun of the things that are indicated in the Bible, I remind you, more precisely: homosexual, passive and active acts : the Bible never speaks of homosexuality in generic terms, deplores some concrete attitudes, some episodes, some actions, not the person.

Here, there is no word against inclination, but against homosexual acts, what we could call homogenality, that is, according to Scripture, a genital act of the same sex potentially has an active meaning.

Then it seems absent in Scripture, we must recognize it, a judgment on the homosexual condition or orientation, what we today could define as homosexuality as a psychological orientation or existential condition, that is, there is no word that affects this category of people, that is those who wake up and look at a person of the same sex and feel attracted to it, because we talk about these today, not people who have episodes of homosexuality, but people who find themselves living something on an emotional, psychological level from which they cannot and do not want to find a distance.

Friend of Rupnik

But wait, there’s more. You can read here how Padre Roberto Pasolini is a disciple of the notorious Marco Rupnik, who designed the covers for a series of his books. (Also reported at Gloria TV) If we wanted any more evidence of a Sex-Cult operating out of the Vatican then this would have be it.

Actions speak louder than words

Just as with his friendship with the late anti-Catholic journalist, Eugenio Scalfari, (Bergoglio ‘cherishes with affection the memory of the meetings’) and the abortionist Emma Bolnino with whom the Pope met only weeks ago, it is Bergoglio’s actions which are most indicative of the agenda of this papacy. History will not be kind to a Pope known for his promotion of sodomy and who openly inflicted it onto the Catholic world. In the words of St. Paul:

“Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.”

Pope Francis Has Rupnik’s Art in His Apartment

As Catholic media has reported the Pope is hanging artwork from the notorious sex-offender Marko Rupnik in his private apartment at the Santa Marta.

The image in question can be seen in a Youtube video made by Canal de la Cuidad (City Channel), posted on August 8, 2024. The video is entitled Pope Francis met with victims of Alfredo Astiz – although they aren’t exactly victims of Astiz. More about that shortly.

Image source: El Observador

The image indicated above is unmistakably by Rupnik, with its telltale dark, soulless eyes. It is identical to the one shown below: an angel rousing St. Joseph from his sleep. Controversially, Vatican News has so far refused to stop using Rupnik’s images and this one appeared on its website for the feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary on March 19 of this year.

Now to the connection Alfredo Astiz connection. Astiz was a prominent military commender during the Argentine Dirty War (1976-1983.) He was later charged with crimes against humanity and sentenced to 19 life sentences for human rights abuses.

The video from Canal de la Cuidad was related to Astiz’ victims. It shows Pope Francis speaking with a young woman by the name of Anita Fernandez, the grand-daughter of Esther Ballestrino de Careaga , who was a left-wing activist executed under orders from Alfredo Astiz.

Ballestrino had been a great friend of Jorge Bergoglio: she was his supervisor when he worked at the Hickethier-Bachmann Laboratory in Buenos Aires. Ballestrino was an avowed Marxist and had a great impact on the young Bergoglio. George Neumayr’s Political Pope recounts Fr. Bergoglio’s thoughts on Ballestrino:

“I owe a huge amount to that woman; she taught me so much about politics. She often read Communist Party texts to me and gave them to me to read…..I realised a few things, an aspect of the social, which I then found in the social doctrine of the Church.”

After his ordination, Ballestrino called Fr. Bergoglio asking for the Last Rites to be given to a family member, even though she was personally an atheist. When Fr. Bergoglio arrived, he was told that Ballestrino in reality wanted him to dispose of the Communist literature which would incriminate her in the event of a raid. Bergoglio acquiesced (one source claims he took these books to a ‘Jesuit library’) but despite this, Ballestrino was eventually detained and ‘disappeared’.

By the time her body was found, washed up on the beach after being thrown from a plane, Bergoglio was Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Even knowing that she was a Marxist, he had her buried in the garden of the church of Santa Cruz. So, while Alfredo Astiz was not a good person, and while throwing Marxists from planes is quite inhumane, Ballestrino wielded an evil influence over the young Bergoglio, helping to form, so to speak, the anti-capitalist and humanist tendencies which are apparent in him today.

{NOTE: One more detail about the Papal apartment: this rather bizarre set of decorations are found to the Pope’s left in the video. They are quite strange and bring to mind Jago – that other sex-fiend artist who has been mentioned in these pages.}