“The year after Karol Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II, the new Holy Father made an apostolic journey to the United States. He attended a concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and afterwards said to the musicians, ‘Your artistic creation . . . exalts what is human and reaches what is religious and divine.’
“He continued, ‘I extend my respectful greetings to all the artists of this land, extolling the role they are called to play . . . for the advancement of true culture . . . in the whole world.’”
In a recent reflection, Father Peter John Cameron, O.P. (editor-in-chief of Magnificat and founder and artistic director of Blackfriars Repertory Theatre), offered some comments on Pope John Paul II as an artist and on John Paul’s perspective on art.
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