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 Catholic
statues offer a special way for those of the catholic
faith to celebrate the lives and acts of Jesus,
Mary, and the number of saints that helped establish
the church. Although, the use of statues has come
under criticism over the centuries, Catholic doctrine
confirms that the use of statues is not a form
of Iconoclasm. Rather catholic statues offer a
method for honoring these people as well as images
that portray the example that Catholics should
follow.
On the 1200 year anniversary of the Council of
Nicaea, the ecumenical council that dealt with
this issue during the trying iconoclastic times
of the 8th century, Pope John Paul II wrote:
The
believer of today, like the one yesterday, must
be helped in his prayer and spiritual life by
seeing works that attempt to express the mystery
of faith and never hide it. That is why today,
as in the past, faith is the necessary inspiration
of Church art.
Authentic
Christian art is that which, through sensible
perception, gives the intuition that the Lord
is present in his Church, that the events of
salvation history give meaning and orientation
to our life, that the glory that is promised
us already transforms our existence. Sacred
art must tend to offer us a visual synthesis
of all dimensions of our faith."
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Pope John Paul II
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