Icons, idols and iconoclasts: Catholic art can’t be calcified
“Our job as Catholics is not to make the world look Catholic but to see the world as Catholics — with the universality that our church is all about,” writes Jesuit artist Nicholas Leeper.
“Our job as Catholics is not to make the world look Catholic but to see the world as Catholics — with the universality that our church is all about,” writes Jesuit artist Nicholas Leeper.
“I now understand more deeply the central expression of God’s presence in each of us,” he said.
Jesuit artist Nicholas Leeper’s artwork is intentionally provocative, but he describes the project less as an attack on religious imagery than as an invitation to reconsider it.
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