Beauty Beyond the Power of the World
It is perplexing that some people in positions of power in the Church are seeking once again to abandon beauty and tradition for the brutality and ugliness of the spirit of the age.
Fifty years ago, confusion appeared to reign supreme in the Catholic Church. Infected, so it seemed, by the radical relativism and “hippydom” of the 1960s, many powerful figures in the Church seemed to have replaced the Holy Spirit with the Spirit of the Age. One manifestation of this modernist madness was the abandonment of beauty. Churches were built in conformity with the new brutalist…