Rupnik remains consultor to Roman Curia even after excommunication
December 22, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: Father Marko Rupnik, who was excommunicated in 2020 because of grave violations of the confessional, remains a consultor to several Vatican offices, including the Dicastery for Clergy, which handles disciplinary cases involving priests.
Although his excommunication was lifted, Father Rupnik now faces new charges of sexual and spiritual abuse.
As recently as this year, Father Rupnik has been listed as a consultor to the Congregations of Clergy and the Congregation for Divine Worship, as well as the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Dec. 27, 2022 10:05 AM ET USA
Consider the lifting of an excommunication and the sacrament of Penance. In our CCD program we teach that one of the conditions for a valid sacramental confession is a firm purpose of amendment. When one sins against himself alone, he offends God, the Church, and himself. However, when a man sins against another, he is offending all of these, plus the one who he sinned against. How many times does a man need to demonstrate impenitence in grave matter to cast doubt on his purpose of amendment?
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Dec. 27, 2022 9:33 AM ET USA
More evidence of "making a mess", a church where sinners feel comfortable and at home, a church where God even approves of the man who sins (AL 303), a church soiled by the mud of the street (AL 308). In fact, the most ingenious excuse for sinning that I have ever come across is found in AL 303: "conscience can...come to see with a certain moral security that it is what God himself is asking amid the concrete complexity of one’s limits, while yet not fully the objective ideal." Comfort with sin.
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Posted by: feedback -
Dec. 22, 2022 5:14 PM ET USA
Sadly, in the case of Francis' favorites such as Rupnik or Zanchetta, civil court is the only hope for some justice in the Church: in order to protect the innocent and to punish the guilty.
