I've seen some bad church art in my day, but I've never seen anything quite like this "restored" Ecce Homo fresco in Spain. Sometimes the line between devotion and vandalism is surprisingly thin.

Mollie Wilson O’​Reilly is editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal.

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