
Claire Giangrave
Vatican Reporter at Religion News Service
Vatican Correspondent for Religion News Service.
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1 week ago |
religionnews.com | Claire Giangrave
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A former nun in Slovenia, one of five witnesses in the sex abuse trial of the Rev. Marko Rupnik, an ex-Jesuit priest and artist, recently detailed what she claims was sexual and psychological abuse that Rupnik subjected her to for years. The woman, who spoke to Religion News Service on the condition that she would be identified as Klara, belonged to the Loyola community of Mengeš, which Rupnik co-founded.
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2 weeks ago |
religionnews.com | Claire Giangrave
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Laura Sgrò’s home office in Rome’s elegant Barberini neighborhood is stacked with files and books and decorated with vases from her native Sicily. “This is the wolves’ den,” she said, indicating a large painting hanging behind the desk of a pack of wolves in a snowstorm.
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4 weeks ago |
religionnews.com | Claire Giangrave
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a letter sent to about 20 women who said they were abused by the Slovenian artist and former Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik, the Jesuit order on Tuesday (March 25) offered to start a “process of healing” based on recognizing the order’s own responsibility and a lack of justice. The letter, signed by the Rev.
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1 month ago |
ncronline.org | Claire Giangrave
Three women who claim to have suffered abuse at the hands of the Slovenian Jesuit priest Marko Rupnik joined together with their lawyer, Laura Sgrò, to ask the Vatican for justice on Wednesday (March 12), while calling attention to the growing number of religious sisters denouncing abuse in the church. "We will continue our fight for this. We will continue fighting to make sure their voices are heard," Sgrò said. "The issue of abuse against religious women must be addressed," she added.
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1 month ago |
sightmagazine.com.au | Claire Giangrave |David Adams
Vatican CityRNSMore than 20 years ago, Steen Heidemann stumbled into Westminster Cathedral in London, where he was studying architecture, and witnessed his first Mass. Born to an atheist family in Denmark, Heidemann had previously only heard about Jesus in history books. ‘1-32 Stations of the Cross’ by James Langley. (USA) (2008 – 2012) (10th Station of the Cross)The spiritual experience was so strong he was struck to the ground, launching his journey of conversion to Catholicism.
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