Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said this week that there are “worse but less publicized” abuse cases than that of disgraced former Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik.
Asked about the timeline of the investigation into Rupnik, reopened by Pope Francis in 2023, Fernández responded that the dicastery he heads has finished “gathering information” about the case and is now working to create a tribunal.
The cardinal’s comments came in a Jan. 23 interview with the weekly magazine of the Archdiocese of Madrid, Alfa y Omega.
