Attorney Laura Sgro represents five women alleging sexual and spiritual abuse by former Jesuit priest and artist Marko Ivan Rupnik, whose mosaics appear in sites including the Vatican and Lourdes. Sgro sent a letter to the Vatican on Tuesday requesting the status of the investigation, following an Italian blog report of an absolution in a canonical trial and subsequent Vatican statements that the matter remains ongoing. Allegations date to the 1990s and were first publicized by Italian blogs in late 2022.