“Rape Case That Rocked Catholic Church in Kerala — Franco Mulakkal Still a Bishop, Diocese stop’s Survivor Nun’s Support”, Organizer, 5 Sep 2026.

“Eight years on, Sister Ranit MJ is still living in the same convent where she says it all happened. The man she accused is still a bishop, at least in name. And the nuns who stood beside her when almost no one else would have quietly lost the little security they had left.

This is where things stand in one of the most explosive cases the Catholic Church in India has ever faced.

It began in 2018, when Sister Ranit, a nun belonging to the Missionaries of Jesus congregation, went to the police and said she had been raped multiple times — thirteen times, by her account — by Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who headed the Jalandhar Diocese and had authority over her convent in Kuravilangad, Kottayam.

When the Nun exposed the Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal 

She said she had gone to church authorities first, more than once, and been ignored. It was only after five fellow nuns broke with tradition and staged a public protest outside the Kerala High Court that the case finally forced the hands of both the police and the public. Mulakkal was arrested that September — the first Catholic bishop in India ever taken into custody on a rape charge…………..”

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