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Welcome to Holy Smoke, the Spectator's Religion podcast. I'm Damien Thompson.

In Rome last week, a former nun who used to belong to a community founded by the notorious

accused sex abuser father Marco Rupnik went public with utterly disgusting allegations against

this extremely well-connected former Jesuit priest. He's still a priest, by the way, just been kicked out of the

Jesuits. At long last, I was able to read quite a big article in The Daily Telegraph, as far as I know,

mentioning the case for the first time, by its Rome correspondent, Exquires, headline,

Priest told me group sex was Holy Trinity, claims ex-nun. And it said a prominent Catholic priest

forced nuns to watch porn to grow spiritually and compared group sex to the Holy Trinity. It was claimed

yesterday. One of Father Marco Rupnik's alleged victims spoke publicly for the first time at a press

conference in Rome,

saying she was abused for years at the community the priest, a renowned religious artist,

founded in his native Slovenia. Quotes, he took me to pornographic theatres to help me grow

spiritually, claimed Gloria Branchiani, a member of the community until 1994.

He said, I wouldn't grow spiritually if I didn't meet his sexual needs.

We had another nun have sex with us because he said it was like the Trinity.

Now, as I say, it was quite a detailed article, but something very big was missing from it,

and that was any discussion of the role of Pope Francis

in it would appear protecting Father Marco Rubnik, a friend of his with many years standing,

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