Benedict XVI mentioned beauty quite a bit, saying that it was an essential element of the liturgy. The iconoclasts like Rembert Weakland didn't think so highly of beauty.
Maybe they had a deeper problem than mere iconoclasm.
...The most precious, profound and important of the great ideas which the Left has raped from us is beauty. I need spend no time on the proposition that life without beauty is a nightmare: those who have seen true beauty – sublime beauty, if even for a moment – have nothing to which they can liken it except the ecstasies of mystics and the transports of saints. Beauty consoles the sorrowing; beauty brings joy and deepens understanding; beauty is like food and wine, and men who live surrounded by ugliness become shriveled and starved in their souls....
....At any point before World War One, if you asked any philosopher or intellectual what was the point of art, poetry, music, painting, sculpture, architecture, all of them of each generation all the way back to Socrates would have said the purpose of art is to seek beauty. Socrates himself would have said that by beauty, by the strong love and longing created in the human breast at the sight of something sublime, we are drawn out of ourselves, and are carried step by step away from the mundane to the divine.
The strongest argument against the atheism so beloved of the Left is not an argument that can be put in words, for it is the argument of beauty....
Dad29: The Loss of Beauty, the Gain of Atheism
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