ROME – Members of a Rome-based artistic centre founded by former Jesuit Fr Marko Rupnik, who is accused of abusing some 30 adult women, have voiced belief in his innocence and condemned calls to see his artwork removed.
Rupnik, 69, is among the Catholic Church’s most celebrated contemporary artists and muralists, with his works adorning famed chapels and cathedrals around the world, including the Marian shrine in Lourdes and the Vatican’s Redemptoris Mater chapel, sometimes dubbed the “Sistine Chapel” of the late St. John Paul II.
