“If you want to know why victims stop reporting, why faithful Catholics stop giving, why young men stop discerning, why families stop trusting, why the confessionals are empty while the chancery calendars are full: look at Rupnik with a microphone, look at the Sistine with a program, look at synodality with a badge, look at the liturgy with a drum kit. The revolution always promises communion. It keeps delivering committees.”
A Church that claims zero tolerance keeps finding exceptions for its friends. While Rome trumpeted “independent judges” for Marko Ivan Rupnik, the Centro Aletti rolled on like an extraterritorial duchy. Bishops lodged there as if on spiritual holiday. Clergy cycled through for exercises. Then the center paywalled his summer meditation, monetizing the scandal like a museum gift shop at the exit. No precautionary measures. No meaningful restrictions. Only the little people get laicized. The networked get microphones.
The institutional reflex is always the same. Delegitimize the accusers. Reassign the collaborators. Incardinate the untouchable. Canon 269 says a bishop must verify a cleric’s conduct and moral suitability before accepting him. What need to verify when the whole machine runs on deniable knowledge. If abuse is the acid test of post-conciliar reform, the solution in Rome keeps getting more diluted until no one notices the color.
Apostolic Mission for the Abuser, Suspension for the Faithful
Preaching is not a hobby; it is a juridical act. In Catholic theology it belongs to the missio canonica: the apostolic mandate to speak in the name of the Church. Trent was explicit: “No one may preach publicly unless sent by lawful pastors.” When a priest is permitted to give spiritual exercises, preach retreats, and publish meditations with episcopal approval, he is exercising precisely that public mission.
Which makes Rupnik’s case all the more obscene. Rome says his canonical trial is underway, yet he continues to deliver sermons under diocesan sponsorship, his talks hosted by clergy and even sold online. To preach freely is to be authorized. The hierarchy can protest procedural technicalities all it wants, but the facts are simple: the man has an apostolic platform granted by silence and sustained by complicity.
Meanwhile the same establishment that shields him insists that priests of the old rite, those who have never abused anyone, “lack a canonical mission.” They are barred from pulpits, driven from parishes, and told their preaching carries no authority because it was not sent by modern Rome. The abuser keeps his pulpit; the traditional confessor loses his church. In the new moral geometry, apostolic mission is no longer tied to fidelity or virtue, but to the approval of the regime. The right paperwork redeems what repentance cannot.
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