{"id":6071,"date":"2005-12-28T00:13:16","date_gmt":"2005-12-28T00:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/new-blogs.html"},"modified":"2005-12-28T00:13:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-28T00:13:16","slug":"new-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/12\/new-blogs.html","title":{"rendered":"New blogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, from Martin Farkus, who was actually an Early Catholic Blogger, and who is back!<\/a><\/p>\n

Then, from one of our frequent commentors here, Hieronymous Blog.  <\/a> The blogger is also an artist, whose work has been admired here before, and the purpose of his blog is in part:<\/p>\n

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My larger purpose in creating this website is to assist the aesthetic formation of fellow Catholics, which is too often neglected in contemporary evangelization. Our culture is now as depraved in its aesthetic as in its conscience; restoring of the sanity of Christendom in the modern age will be impossible without the beauty and profundity of its artistic and musical heritage. Catholicism particularly is a religion of images and sounds; for nearly the entirety of its history, its means of catechesis were buildings, paintings, statues, illuminations, windows, altars, vestments, vessels and music more than verbal lessons and arguments. If the new evangelization is to share the success of the old evangelizations, it will not be merely bookish and apologetic, nor will it conform to the conventions of modern media. If a new sacred art is to flourish, contemporary creativity must be grafted onto the living tradition of the Church, so it may grow and develop to natural sustenance. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check them both out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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