在法国西南部主要天主教朝圣地卢尔德的圣殿立面上，只能看到它们。前来参加教皇利奥十四世于9月27日周日举行的弥撒的常客们，在离开圣殿时注意到了它们。几周来，大型木质和铝制面板一直遮盖着斯洛文尼亚艺术家马尔科·鲁普尼克的教堂壁画。这位耶稣会士曾备受追捧，为世界各地的许多礼拜场所装饰壁画，如今却名誉扫地，被多名女性指控性侵犯。他正在罗马面临教会刑事诉讼。
On the façade of the basilica in Lourdes, a major Catholic pilgrimage site in southwestern France, they were all that could be seen. The regulars, who came to attend the mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, September 27, as part of his official visit to France, noticed them as they left the sanctuary. For several weeks, large wooden and aluminum panels had been covering the church's frescoes by Slovenian artist Marko Rupnik. Once highly sought after, leading him to decorate many places of worship around the world, the Jesuit is now disgraced, accused by several women of sexual assault. He is facing canonical criminal proceedings in Rome.
卢尔德主教让-马克·米卡斯此前已遮盖了部分艺术家的作品，他决定为教皇访问期间全部遮盖。这一有力举动使利奥十四世法国之行的这一站更具象征意义和重要性，因为这正是他周日预计要解决的问题。在卢尔德，他选择私下会见七位法国教会内性暴力幸存者。也是在那里，距离私立天主教学校贝塔兰圣母院仅几十公里——该校是针对学生的许多犯罪和罪行发生地——利奥十四世选择就这一主题发言。
The Bishop of Lourdes, Mgr Jean-Marc Micas, who had already covered part of the artist's work, decided to hide it all for the pope's visit. This powerful gesture made this leg of Leo XIV's visit to France all the more symbolic and significant, as it was the very issue he was expected to address on Sunday. In Lourdes, he chose to meet privately with seven French survivors of sexual violence within the Church. It was also there, just a few dozen kilometers from the private Catholic school Notre-Dame de Bétharram, a site of many crimes and offenses against students, that Leo XIV chose to speak on the subject. You have 81.48% of this article left to read. The rest is forrs only.