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<\/a><\/p>\nAs you know, 21 November 2009 the Holy Father held an
\naudience in Rome with a number of prominent artists, musicians and architects.
\nIn support of his efforts, a number of Catholic architects, academics,
\nmusicologists, journalists have drafted a letter of appeal to Pope Benedict
\noffering considerations for the recovery the sacred arts in support of the sacred
\nLiturgy.<\/p>\n
I have attached the English draft translation for your consideration. A Congress on Would you <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you know, 21 November 2009 the Holy Father held an audience in Rome with a number of prominent artists, musicians and architects. In support of his efforts, a number of Catholic architects, academics, musicologists, journalists have drafted a letter of appeal to Pope Benedict offering considerations for the recovery the sacred arts in support … Continue reading Appeal to Pope Benedict<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[2173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis is still in draft form, but is substantially in place. Appeal to His Holiness.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSacred Art in Rome is being planned next year to draw attention to the issue.
\nAt present, we are still looking to get the word out, and to enlist signatories
\nof architects, artists, academics, journalists, cultural critics, clergy,
\nconcerned laity, and the like to add their support to this endeavor.<\/p>\n
\nplease visit the website<\/a> to become a signatory to this letter, and forward this email to your own circle
\nof influence, and perhaps give it some space where ever you publish or
\ncontribute?<\/p>\n