Skepticism Over Pope’s About-Face in Rupnik Case

Victims “need justice, not talk,” said Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins, a former member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors who resigned in protest in 2017. For over a year, the furor surrounding Rupnik, perhaps contemporary Catholicism’s most famed muralist, who has been accused of sexually assaulting around 25 adult women over a thirty-year period, has plagued the Church, in part due to several question marks over the handling of the case.