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The Resurrection of Beauty, by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, May 9, 2026

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). …

Beauty is alive. It is alive with the living presence of the living God. It is God’s grandeur shining forth His Presence in creation and creativity.

If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection?  ~Cardinal Ratzinger

This question, asked by the future Pope Benedict XVI, is purely rhetorical. The answer is that the Church cannot continue to transform and humanize the world if she dispenses with the beauty of the liturgy. “Without this,” Cardinal Ratzinger continued, “the world will become the first circle of hell.” Restoring the beauty of the liturgy is, therefore, saving the world from Hell itself.

For Benedict XVI, beauty is inseparable from holiness and truth. As he reminds us, “[t]he only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb.” …

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