What would this world be like without color? This beautiful short film explores one artist’s determination to bring color to a place that is often gray with hopelessness — Jalouzi, one of the largest slums in Haiti. This man is mobilizing people of all ages to help him paint the town, one wall and bus and roof at a time.
Beauty can transform us, and lift our hearts and minds to God. Beauty will save the world, wrote Dostoyevsky, and Pope Francis spoke of this in his off-the-cuff remarks at the Festival of Families in Philadelphia at the World Meeting of the Families:
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful brings us to God. Because God is good, God is beautiful, God is the truth.
And today we celebrate...