{"id":85668,"date":"2026-08-21T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85668"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:59:00","slug":"lourdes-bishop-faces-resistance-on-removal-of-rupnik-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/lourdes-bishop-faces-resistance-on-removal-of-rupnik-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Lourdes Bishop Says Shrine Will Cover All Rupnik Mosaics Ahead Of Pope\u2019s Visit To France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>EWTN News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">The bishop who oversees the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France has said the popular Catholic pilgrimage site will cover all of its mosaics by disgraced priest Father Marko Rupnik ahead of Pope Leo XIV\u2019s visit next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[18px] md:text-[20px] first-of-type:mt-5 mt-[16px] lg:mt-[28px] leading-[28px] md:leading-8 normal \">Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes told the French daily\u00a0<a class=\"text-red-500 hover-underline-animation-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ladepeche.fr\/2026\/08\/20\/exclusif-visite-du-pape-leon-xiv-a-lourdes-lintegralite-des-mosaiques-controversees-de-marko-rupnik-seront-recouvertes-et-le-resteront-apres-sa-venue-13514493.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La D\u00e9p\u00eache du Midi<\/a>\u00a0on Aug. 20 that \u201call of the works on the fa\u00e7ade\u201d of the Basilica of the Rosary will be covered and redecorated out of respect for abuse victims. He also said they will remain covered going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EWTN News: The bishop who oversees the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France has said the popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85672,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85668\/revisions\/85672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}