My wife took Christ off our living room wall the other day. It was a postcard image of a mosaic created by Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik. She couldn’t bear to have it up.
Rupnik is a remarkably gifted artist. His mosaics adorn chapels
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the most famous sites of Marian apparitions worldwide, is facing an important decision: what to do with Father Marko Rupnik's mosaics that decorate the façade of the Basilica of the Rosary.
With a degree of credibility that "seems to be very high," another 14 women and one man have reported to the Jesuits that they were spiritually, psychologically or sexually abused by Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, a well-known mosaic artist and spiritual director.
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On Dec. 14, reports surfaced that the well-known priest-artist Father Marko Rupnik had serially abused members of a women's religious community while serving as their chaplain in the 1990s. That same day, Father Patrick Briscoe, editor of Our Sunday Visitor, was concelebrating
Slovenian Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, whose mosaics decorate chapels in the Vatican, all over Europe, in the United States and Australia, has been barred from hearing confessions or offering spiritual direction after what the Jesuits described as complaints about his ministry.
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