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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Angela Giuffrida

Former nuns call on pope to launch inquiry into priest they say sexually abused them

Gloria Branciani and Mirjam Kovac at a press conference in Rome.
Gloria Branciani, left, and Mirjam Kovac reported Rupnik to senior Catholic church officials in the early 1990s but say they were rebuffed and dismissed. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images

Two former nuns have called on Pope Francis to initiate an independent investigation into a once-prominent Jesuit artist-priest who they allege sexually abused them, including by forcing them to have threesomes and making them watch pornography so they would “grow spiritually”.

Speaking publicly for the first time, Mirjiam Kovac and Gloria Branciani said the wall of silence surrounding Marko Rupnik, who has been accused by several women of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuses dating back three decades, had finally “crumbled”.

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