The head of the Vatican’s communications department had defended his office’s continued use of art by Marko Rupnik, who is accused of multiple cases of sexual abuse and has been expelled from the Jesuits as a result.
Italian layman Paolo Ruffini, the Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, was drawn into offering his argument for why the art should remain in response to questions from journalists attending his keynote address at the annual Catholic Media Conference in the US city of Atlanta, Georgia, on 21 June.
