Prominent Jesuit Priest Expelled Over Allegations of Abuse Against Adult Women.
The Jesuits have expelled Slovenian priest Marko Ivan Rupnik from the congregation due to allegations of sexual, spiritual, and psychological abuses against adult women. Rupnik, a celebrated religious artist in the Catholic Church, had been accused by several women of abuse over a 30-year period. The case had remained a problem for the Vatican and the Jesuits because of suspicions that the charismatic priest received preferential treatment. The Vatican's sex abuse office refused to waive the statute of limitations and declared the crimes too old to prosecute.