Posted on 07/06/2023 2:57:41 PM PDT by ebb tide
Editor’s note: The following article contains disturbing descriptions of blasphemy and sexual abuse.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has decided that there is no reason to prevent its continued use of the artwork of alleged serial abuser Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, despite his alleged victims testifying that his work is intimately linked to his wide-ranging abuse.
The disgraced Fr. Rupnik is set to enjoy continued promotion at the Vatican, as the Dicastery for Communications — which oversees the Vatican’s Press Office and various Vatican news outlet including the eponymously named Vatican News website — has decided to continue using his images. Such is arguably due to Rupnik’s wide reaching influence in the Vatican, both in his own name but also through loyal members of his Rome-base art center who also work at the Vatican.
In a July 3 report, La Croix’s Vatican correspondent Loup Besmond de Senneville wrote:
In the last few days, a meeting attended by some of the dicastery’s top officials concluded that there was nothing to prevent the continued use of Rupnik’s mosaics. They said the work should stand on its own merits and be dissociated from the personal life of the artist.
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