(Nicole Winfield, AP) Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist said
Tuesday they had been revictimized by his superiors, saying Pope
Francis’ recent gestures and an apparent effort to exonerate him
publicly showed church pledges of “zero tolerance” were just a
“publicity stunt.” In an open letter published on an Italian
survivor advocate site, the women lashed out at a declaration from the
Vicariate of Rome, which Francis nominally heads as bishop of Rome and
recently tightened his grip over. The Vicariate reported Monday that it
had uncovered “seriously anomalous procedures” used in the Vatican
investigation into the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik. (...)
