Aesthetic Evangelist ♱ Catholic ❤️🔥 Leading the crusade against ugly ⚔️ by Julia James Davis
1/ John Ruskin, the famous 19th-century art theorist and critic, made a profound connection in “The Work of Iron in Nature, Art and Policy” between color (oxygenated iron) and life. 
1/ The answer to the famous question posed by Linda Nochlin in her 1971 essay “Why are there no great women artists?” is because men are superior to women in all art, from poetry to prose, sculpture to painting, architecture, and even interior design… 
1/ It’s a widespread belief that beauty is “in the eye of the beholder,” but in his book ‘Aesthetics vol. 1,’ philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand not only disproved that, but also revealed how that thinking has led to the disappearance of beauty in our world. 
1/ Perhaps the solution to the broken male/female dynamic isn't to bring men and women together but to separate them more. As the adage goes: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” 
1/ There is a reason why dystopias often resemble hospitals—cold, blue-white light—which is how our world is starting to be lit. But it wasn’t always like this. From candle-lit cathedrals to the Golden Age of Hollywood—lighting used to shape beauty, but now it bleaches it.
The Langdale Rosary, the only surviving medieval Rosary from pre-Reformation England, as well as one of the only European Rosaries made of gold. 
1/ If America can be summed up in a single image, it's a car–a symbol of the freedom, romance, independence, and upward mobility that once defined this country. 
1) Los Angeles is a Catholic city. And while everyone now thinks of Los Angeles as the ‘New Babylon’--a dark place standing for vanity, vice, and everything anti-religious–there is a reason it’s called the ‘City of Angels.’ 
1/12 What if I told you that we should live in a patriarchy? Not the caricature portrayed in memes or by "alpha male/red pill" influencers, but the kind that reflects natural order and provides for future generations. 
1/ Almost every girl from a very young age dreams of finding Prince Charming, having a beautiful wedding, then a cute baby, and living happily ever after. But now, all that has changed, as marriage has been demonized and replaced with the promotion of endless hookup culture and working as a corporate slave.
People tend to think that immodest dress is a new thing, however, in post-Revolutionary France, women were wearing dresses that would make us blush today. This provides an excellent case study for the relationship between immodesty and atheism, which directly parallels the crisis of modesty the West is experiencing now.
CLOSER TO JESUS: People say the Rosary is ‘praying to Mary’ but it is praying THRU Mary, and meditating on the life of Jesus. It is literally the Bible on a string, and it has given me a deeper understanding of the life of Jesus from Nativity to Passion to Resurrection. 
Beauty is a uniquely powerful force of spiritual conversion; it is one of the three transcendentals along with Truth and Goodness. Real beauty is True and Good, and therefore points to God who is the ultimate creative force and author of all beauty. 