The Rupnik debacle has been very enlightening, albeit very depressing, that so many of the Bishops couldn’t care less about the terrible things he has done. They merely pretend to care to mollify the laity. What utter and complete contempt they must have for us.
Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Given the blasphemies and abominations Rupnik’s victims say they experienced, the fact that his mosaic at Lourdes represents the Wedding at Cana is truly vile. “Thinking about” its removal should have taken no more than ghe time between two breaths, and the answer should have been an immediate order for its removal.
They’re either: homosexual with no paternal instinct to protect their flock, seriously compromised, under the obtuse belief that one should never express anger at evil (men without chests), sometimes a combination of all three.
If he thinks the decision is so difficult, the locals and pilgrims should make the decision for him.
I think Rupnik’s art should be removed because it is ugly and without merit. However, I would be very careful about removing art based on the character of the artist. It would be a shame to remove Caravaggio’s work.
Works of genius are works of genius and Carravaggio’s is in that category. Rupnik’s scrawls are works of crap and were being used as part of religious ceremonies.
After ordering all of Rupnik’s garbage removed from every place it currently defiles, including missalettes and songbooks, the next Catholic Pope should also remove this bishop and all those who have tried to protect Rupnik from justice. Laicization ought to be on the menu for many of them. It’s hard for me to imagine a worse example of betraying Holy Orders than Rupnik has provided.
I’m guessing His Excellency knows perfectly well removing Rupnik’s ‘art’ is the right thing to do— it’s just that he knows that doing the right thing will likely displease a very powerful, vindictive little man in Rome.
What’s puzzling him is how to both make this controversy go away and save his episcopal hindquarters.
Flipping the money changers tables over and driving out the thieves with a whip might be the only way to get to these accomplices.
To clean house.
To restore what has been demolished…
The Holy, in the Holy Catholic Church.
BillR – I mostly agree on this. But there’s something gross about praising art created during the lifetime of a scoundrel. During my beatnik phase, I couldn’t bring myself to buy a copy of Naked Lunch because Burroughs was so awful. But stories I only recently heard about Gene Kelly don’t turn me off of his movies.
May Rupnik and Jorge the Heretic one day both be held in Damnatio Memoriae.
I just read about another Catholic pilgrimage destination adorned with this blasphemous pervert’s “artwork” … Padre Pio, Ora pro nobis!
One wonders, was Rupnik’s art sought after on some supposed merit or solely on the possibly heavy handed recommendation from people with clout.
I’m beginning to wonder if some of the audio sewage in the misalettes has be selected in the same way.
Sexual perversion and depravity aside (just for a second) but his art stinks. It’s dated. There are many beautiful Catholic lay artists – they exist:
https://catholicartistsdirectory.com/
https://angelusnews.com/arts-culture/catholic-art-renaissance/
They paint in the tradition of the Renaissance. Surely they can upgrade this 1970’s dated rubbish and commission some of these lay artists…bring back the Catholic art patronage.
I’m in agreement with you Ezabelle.
It is said that the eyes are the window into the soul, (paraphrasing here) and the photo of William Hutchings captures that saying well, imo.
Look at Jesus, in Rupnik’s depiction of him.
The eyes are very dark and exaggerated.
I think of a Great White shark when I look at those eyes. I do understand that Rupnik was not trying to follow the Masters of Renaissance, however it doesn’t work with Christ or Our Lady, nor St. Joseph. Not for public display.
He takes away the sacred and enhances an element of pride which overflows onto the canvas, and it now makes perfect sense, since pride leads to the fall.
The Holy Family is just that… Holy and inviting.
Not dark and foreboding.
It should have been a matter of simple aesthetics to destroy them all before the revelations of his blasphemous depravity now it requires a classic Auto-da-fé with him as the guest of honor at the center of the conflagration.
Laicization is temporal punishment due to sin that deserves laicization. The death penalty is temporal punishment. The rosary said as penance is temporal punishment. To avoid eternal punishment, temporal punishment is a gift in the Sacrament of Penance.
Unless Rupnik serves his temporal punishment of laicization, he (Rupnik) may find himself in eternal punishment.
Temporal punishment of laicization for all priests and clergy who betray their Holy Orders.