The Vatican has ordered a religious community co-founded by the mosaic artist and former Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik to dissolve by October next year after it found “serious problems” related to its governance. …

It said that the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL), which oversees religious communities, had issued a decree Oct. 20 giving the Loyola Community a year to dissolve.

The archdiocese said that the dicastery took the step “because of serious problems concerning the exercise of authority and the way of life together.”

[The Vatican attempted to dodge the Rupnik case during its Synod on Synodality, who has largely avoided any direct punishment for allegations of serial abuse of women during his career. That caused some embarrassment at the time, and it seems as though the Vatican is attempting to catch up to various aspects of the scandal ever since. — Ed]