Tone deaf and color blind? Catholic Church struggles to keep accused abusers out of religious art

Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) — An unholy argument over a hymn has struck a discordant note in the preparations for the main event of Pope Francis’ trip to Belgium. Sunday’s Mass was to end with a work of a local priest composer. Now it turns out he was a known abuser of women. It’s the latest controversy in the Belgian church’s decades-long struggle to come to terms with an appalling history of sex abuse and cover-ups by its priests and clergy. And the Vatican itself has also had to deal with such stained art, be it music or mosaics.