Selections from Section 10
It is true nevertheless that, in the modern era,
alongside this Christian humanism
which has continued to produce
important works of culture and art,
another kind of humanism,
marked by the absence of God
and often by opposition to God,
has gradually asserted itself.
Such an atmosphere has sometimes led
to a separation of the world of art
and the world of faith,
at least in the sense that many artists
have a diminished interest in religious themes.
In so far as it seeks the beautiful,
fruit of an imagination
which rises above the everyday,
art is by its nature a kind of appeal to the mystery.
Even when they explore
the darkest depths of the soul
or the most unsettling aspects of evil,
artists give voice in a way
to the universal desire for redemption.