the digital, from watercolor to photography, from marble
and stone to found materials. As a Jesuit steeped in the
culture of education, he knows that many of the greatest
works in the Vatican, now imbued with artistic and spiritual
reverence, were once controversial, considered ironic or
transgressive in their day. Many of them are the products
of artists or innovators hostile to the Church's narrative,
yet their works contribute to the catholic world of the
Church.
Contemporary art, comprising most of the last hundred
years is, for the most part, conspicuously absent from
the Vatican Museums. Acknowledging this lacuna, Pope
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