Joseph Ratzinger gets the Green Shoots nomination two weeks in a row, reminding us all that that outpouring of beauty found in the Middle Ages cathedrals was an expression of deep faith.
These were never intended to be museums. Some still aren't, like Ely, north of Cambridge, where the Queen visited yesterday to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Diocese of Ely.
Ratzinger ends his address thus:
Dear brothers and sisters, may the Lord help us to rediscover the way of beauty as one of the ways, perhaps the most attractive and fascinating, to come to encounter and love God.
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Ahead of Meeting with Artists, Pope Benedict Acts as Docent
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