Why does Pope Francis care whether rapist Rupnik’s Rome Aletti Center lives or dies?

Why is Pope Francis using his worldwide spiritual and moral authority to rehabilitate an accused rapist who has already been judged guilty of the charges? Curious.

Ivan Rupnik, artist and founder of the Aletti Center in Rome serially abused women sexually, spiritually and psychologically for years using his disguise as a Jesuit priest to gain access to and authority over them. Their accusations have already led to his expulsion from the Jesuits and a rapidly lifted excommunication by the Pope.

AP reports:

“The center has long stood by Rupnik, with current leader Maria Campatelli saying in June that the claims against him were “defamatory and unproven” and amounted to a form of mediatic “lynching” against the Slovene priest and his art center.

“Francis last week had a well-publicized, private audience with Campatelli, and photographs distributed by the Vatican showed them sitting together at the pope’s desk in his formal library in the Apostolic Palace, a place reserved for his official audiences.”

Makes one wonder. Usually when power is used to protect corruption it means the powerful are also corrupt.

Why would Pope Francis risk the possibility of public wonderment and conjecture in this regard? We have here a very curious case of high risk danger of appearing morally compromised in some way. Not a good look for a pope.

Source: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-jesuit-abuse-artist-marko-ivan-rupnik-2bc494b3c624cb3a657ba0598c8a29ee

An effort to exonerate or whitewash the lifting of Rupnik’s excommunication by Pope Francis may be involved here:

“The influential Vatican-watch website Il Sismografo published an editorial on Monday accusing the vicariate of “unbearable and untruthful verbal acrobatics” by referring to Rupnik’s canonical process and punishment as a “request for excommunication” instead of acknowledging that the penalty was imposed by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.”

“The site’s editors argued that the vicariate’s intention was “to exonerate Pope Francis from the fact of having canceled the excommunication of Father Marko Rupnik.”

More from Pillar Catholic here: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/the-diocese-of-romes-rupnik-problem