The man treated nuns as sex slaves. It says a lot about the Vatican, none of it good, that his wretched art was still being celebrated long after this was revealed, and that his punishment, such as it will be, is put off indefinitely.
Rupnik
- 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.
Has anyone figured out how this one man ever managed to corner the market for ugly, bug-eyed mosaics in churches all over the world?
In Italy, and the United States, and everywhere else, his peculiar style has covered the walls of more Catholic buildings than Michelangelo ever dreamed of.
Even without the accusations of immoral behavior, this artist doesn’t seem to merit the amount of business he got in the Catholic art market.
I do not like his pictures at all. Are there really ao few artists looking for work? Where is the competition?
And, yes, the news has been awfully slow.
Such continual ugly contemptible cruelty to the women who gave the lives to Christ….
then, now, today, at this very moment.
Punishment will Come.
Rupnik is a huge log in the Vatican’s eye … Those depraved hierarchs ought to think about removing it before they go on scolding the world about immigration law or climate change.
Honestly, even if he were convicted tomorrow, the Pope is still guilty for allowing Rupnik to remain a priest in good standing for a year (and then Francis before him)! Against the Vatican’s own directives, the man has been allowed to offer the sacraments for years while being credibly accused of dozens of sexual assaults on religious sisters! He was excommunicated by the Jesuits (how bad do you have to be before that bunch notices?!?) for crimes in the confessional for crying out loud and yet today he can hear a nun’s confession!
The city on seven hills has no moral high ground!
If Rupnik and his victims were in the US, the fathers and brothers of those innocent sisters would have rearranged his face long ago.
He would have begged to go to prison. Bet on it.
I share everyone’s outrage that justice has not come to Rupnik, but I disagree that his art is ugly and I disagree that one should shun the art of wicked artists. I enjoyed a couple hours of Wagner this very morning. All people are sinners, though certainly some more so than others. But one really should normally be able to separate the work from the man. Conservatives do it pretty successfully with our current President, and rightly so.
Rupnik’s paintings depicting dark soul-less eyes within Our Lord, His Mother and the Saints do have a “spirituality”, but not one anyone should wish to be associated with, or validate.
Mike, he raped nuns … Can we at least agree that his “art” shouldn’t be displayed in sacred spaces like churches and shrines? If not because of the scandal, then for the sake of his victims? No one is telling you that you can’t hang them up in your house if you want, but art inspired by the sexual victimization of religious sisters give most of us the creeps.
Rupnik said that his victims “wanted it.”
and
Wagner climbed into bed with his best friend’s wife after his friend gave him room and board.
The music Wagner wrote belongs to his friend.
And more than one say so.
Rupnik’s art stands as testimony against him. Rupnik is not Catholic?
I’ve always found his works repulsive, before I ever heard the name Rupnik. I respect that some artists are calling back to traditional iconography, using techniques such as the posing and eyes. But Rupnik’s work seems like a parody of those forms.
Why does no one ever receive punishment in Rome, in Washington. No justice. I’m so completely sick of it.