[Catholic Caucus] Discipline of Sister Who Led Community Co-Founded by Father Rupnik Raises Questions

National Catholic Register ^ | September 27, 2023 | Hannah Brockhaus

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[Catholic Caucus] Discipline of Sister Who Led Community Co-Founded by Father Rupnik Raises Questions

A religious sister who co-founded a community with the ex-Jesuit and accused abuser Father Marko Rupnik three decades ago was quietly removed in June from the governance of the community, banned from contacting current or former sisters for three years, and ordered to make monthly pilgrimages to pray for Father Rupnik’s victims.

Sister Ivanka Hosta, the superior general of the Loyola Community since 1994, is staying in a monastery in Braga, in northern Portugal, following the conclusion of an investigation into her leadership of the religious community by the Diocese of Rome, according to the Portuguese religious news outlet Sete Margens.

Sister Ivanka founded the community of women religious together with Father Rupnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in the early 1990s, though the two dramatically split ways in 1993.

According to a June 21 decree sent by Roman Jesuit Auxiliary Bishop Daniele Libanori to Sister Ivanka, and obtained by Sete Margens, Sister Ivanka was prohibited from holding any position or function of government or from carrying out any spiritual direction in the community.

Bishop Libanori issued a “formal reprimand” against Sister Ivanka for “exercising a style of government detrimental to the dignity and rights of each of the religious who make up the community,” Sete Margens reported Sept. 24.

The former religious superior was also ordered not to have any contact with current or past members of the Loyola Community for three years and, as an “external penance,” to make a monthly pilgrimage for one year to a Marian shrine to pray “for the victims of Father Marko Ivan Rupnik’s behavior and for all the religious of the Loyola Community,” whom she is accused of harming.

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The unusual disciplinary measures leveled against Sister Ivanka raise questions about the conclusions of the investigation of the Loyola Community by the Diocese of Rome, including why Sister Ivanka would be ordered to do penance for Father Rupnik’s victims, and stand in stark contrast to a recent statement from the Diocese of Rome exonerating Father Rupnik’s art center.

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though the two dramatically split ways in 1993.

That seems to have made her an enemy of the pedo-cabal.