Vatican Closes Religious Order Father Rupnik Co-Founded

The Vatican’s decision to close a religious community co-founded by accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik is prompting wary praise from survivor advocates in the U.S. and Canada, as well as calls to do more to heed and protect survivors. On Dec. 15, the Slovenian Archdiocese of Ljubljana announced that the Vatican had ordered the Sisters of the Community of Loyola to be dissolved within one year, following a decree issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.