Episode # 608 - Restoring and Finding Beauty

Father Tom Loya is sitting in for Father Anthony along Cristina and Tony.  Father Tom comments Pope Francis inaugural installation and how the secular media viewed that event commenting on the beauty of the event .Father Tom talks about the book, Benedict XVI Beauty in Sacred Art and Architecture. We talk about how we should see everyone as beautiful, the trilogy of beauty of gender, to the beauty of art and liturgy to the beauty of noble simplicity from John Paul II, Benedict XVI to Francis. We note the feeling of hope in the air with the election of Pope Francis who wants to bring the Church back to its sense of mission. Father Tom discusses the role of the Pope through time and how the Eastern Orthodox churches favorable view of Pope Francis as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I attends the installation Mass. Please visit marriagemarch.org to find out how to attend the marriage march for God's definition of marriage taking place in Washington D.C. Tuesday, March 26th. Only the truth is truly compassionate.