I have been reading The Ratzinger Report, the published interview from 1984 of then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger who is now Pope Benedict XVI. While the following quotations come from his thoughts on liturgy, I could not help but be struck by how appropriate they are for Summit. As some of you know, the only thing I love more than reading such wonderful pieces is sharing and discussing them with friends.
"More and more clearly we discern the frightening impoverishment which takes place when people show beauty the door and devote themselves exclusively to 'utility.'" (p.128)
"[Christians] must make their Church into a place where beauty -- and hence truth -- is at home. Without this the world will become the first circle of hell." (p. 130)
Even Einstein observed that an elegant theory had a greater chance of being right. It would seem, then, that truth, goodness, and beauty are logically necessary causes of each other.
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