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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Thursday denounced psychological violence and abuse of power in the Church, as the case of a prominent priest accused of exploiting his authority to sexually abuse nuns has rocked the Vatican.
The 86-year-old pope made his comments in his annual Christmas address to cardinals, bishops and other members of the Curia, the central administration of the Vatican.
Francis has often used the occasion to decry perceived flaws in the top bureaucracy, such as gossip, cliques and infighting.
After mentioning wars, the pope said: “Besides the violence of arms, there is also verbal violence, psychological violence, the violence of the abuse of power, the hidden violence of gossip.”
He added that no one should “profit from his or her position and role in order to demean others”.
Although he did not specifically refer to this, the Jesuit order, of which the pope is a member, has been rattled in recent weeks by the case of Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, a Slovenian priest known in the Church for his artwork, including the designing of a chapel in the Vatican.
Rupnik has been accused of psychologically and sexually abusing nuns in Slovenia three decades ago while he was the spiritual director of their convent there.
Repeated attempts to reach Rupnik through his school for religious art in Rome have not been not successful and he did not respond to messages left there.
Under pressure from the media, the Jesuits acknowledged earlier this month that Rupnik was disciplined at least twice in recent years as alleged victims came forward but was quietly pardoned by the Vatican’s doctrinal office.
One case involved the “absolution of an accomplice” in confession, referring to when a priest has sex with someone and then absolves the person of the sin.
One former nun has accused him of exercising “psycho-spiritual” control over her.
The Jesuits have effectively reopened the case, posting a letter on their website on Sunday asking anyone wishing to make new complaints or discuss existing ones to contact them.
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Bergoglio is now stocking the cupboards in Rome, with liberal, modernist, socialist minded Cardinals. This way they can forward Bergoglios agenda in the future, in order to shape the thinking of future of the laity to embrace and conform to the notion that gay priests will be the norm going forward, and the LGBTQ agenda will be promoted and validated universally, all around the globe, so we should accept and value it. The seminaries will thus be filled with mostly gay seminarians as will be religious communities. Lesbian nunneries will be championed as will gay monasteries and religious communities. All forms of impious and non Catholic material will be shared so we can conform to this new way of thinking, such as pagan artifacts like Pachamama, which was shockingly even brought into Saint Peters basilica in Rome! Bergoglio is now crafting in his Synod at present, all kinds of new things for the sheep to embrace, even if it is incongruent with the teachings of the Church or in conformity with sacred scripture. We must pray 🙏 our rosaries daily, and make good sacramental confessions, and live our Catholic faith to refute and rebuff this rubbish at every turn. Bishop Strickland is a wise and holy man, who is keenly aware of this progressive and ignominious road that many prelates are embracing…”the road to hell is paved with good intentions”…”the floor of hell is paved with skulls of Bishops”. Saint Athanasius