The Church, Her Culture, and the Saints

Posted by Catherine Cavadini on Nov 7, 2019 1:44:00 PM

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger once reported that “the 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.” In this month marked by the feast of All Saints, I wish to take up examples of the truth of Ratzinger’s statement, one from the literary arts and one from the visual arts, both related to the saints. 

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Topics: Culture, Catholic imagination, saints, Sigrid Undset, literature, visual arts

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