Two alleged victims of the Jesuit Marko Rupnik come to light for the first time in public.
They are Mirjiam and Gloria, two Slovenian women who are former members of the Ignatius of Loyola Community.
"We met in the community - Mirjam explained in a press conference with Gloria at her side - we were all young girls, full of ideals but these ideals together with our training in obedience were exploited for abuses of various kinds: of conscience, of power, spiritual, psychic, physical and often even sexual".
"We found ourselves in front of a rubber wall - they said in a press conference at the headquarters of the Foreign Press in Rome -, let the wall crumble".
The victims who came to light are two former nuns, one Italian and the other Slovenian.
Gloria, the Italian one, told her story, from the time when a young medical student in Rome met Rupnik who was already considered a spiritual father of reference.
"At the beginning - she said - I felt disoriented, confused because Rupnik entered my spiritual world, also distorting my relationship with the Lord, he entered with the authority of the spiritual father, of the confessor and also as a guarantor of the charism of the nascent community".
A story made of abuse, he said, but above all "a true abuse of conscience", in which "manipulation and plagiarism" dominated, "Rupnik is able to manipulate many people around him by creating a very large context network, it was a abusive context".
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