Posted on 08/28/2018 3:05:09 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“Man can live without science, he can live without bread, but without beauty he could no longer live, because there would no longer be anything to do to the world. The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here.”
So wrote Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel Demons. The Russian Orthodox novelist would find himself in agreement with a Polish Roman Catholic Pope, who more than a century later wrote of the Catholic Church’s need for beauty, and artists who could create that beauty.
"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savour life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God…”
Himself an artist as an accomplished actor and poet--Pope John Paul II desired stronger collaboration between the world of art and the Church, once one of the world’s greatest incubators for the world’s greatest artists like Michelangelo, who created such enduring works as the Sistine Chapel and La Pieta.
Because of the power of art to lift people’s minds and hearts to God, good art should be something that the Church is willing to sacrifice for...
Emily Martinez received her assignment at New York University, one of the best art schools in the country. She had her bible study put on a show.
They each created pieces specific to their personal medium of art (acting, dance, fashion), based on the passage from the bible about the woman at the well, about a time that they encountered Christ, perhaps while looking for something different.
The show was a hit.
“You can do this all the time, you can ask God to be with you in your art.”
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
Catholicism needs a lot more than art before it can afford to fix its attention on something so not critical to faith.
This is so shallow.
Artists today are all sodomized or sodomite-friendly.
I went to Rome in 1984. Saw the Sistine Chapel while it was being restored, toured the Vatican Museum, visited the major Churches and stuff like Trevi Fountain and saw JPII. When I got back home I decided I did not want to go to a church that looked like a bank anymore. No more modern churches-in-the-round for me.
Thank-you something very positive!
Had Fyodor Dostoyevsky been alive when the Pope agreed with him, he would have changed his opinion, or made an argument that the Pope was insincere.
Thanks for posting.
Or physicists.
Probably one of the most stupid comments I have ever heard outside of a college art class. No basis no meaning just rhetorical bull sh*t. Just what the
Catholic Church needs right now with all of it’s internal and external problems
I’m not.
Patronage for the arts is one of the highest callings of man.
Without it, we would not have ever heard the music of God...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDXWK3W477w
There are few universals concerning human behavior that don’t admit of any exceptions.
There are few universals concerning human behavior that don’t admit of any exceptions.
Yes, I guess it’s what they call a space-filler, any topic but the pope!
Bump — Some of the most beautiful art can be found in Catholic Churches.
Had Fyodor Dostoyevsky been alive when the Pope agreed with him, he would have changed his opinion, or made an argument that the Pope was insincere.
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Last year I read the Brothers Karmazov.
I still have a headache.
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