What do JP II, Greek baths, and Catholic Creatives have to do with each other? Well. Quite a lot, turns out. Hear all about it in this special edition of the Catholic Creatives podcast.

It’s been a minute, but because of the feast of JPII, we decided to dust off this interview that Matt Meeks and Anthony D’Ambrosio did with Christopher West. Christopher discovered a retreat that JP II gave to artists, and had it translated to English and published for the first time ever, complete with commentary from himself and some other notable theologians. Their conversation about JPII’s insights got into some really interesting and very vulnerable waters. What JPII outlines is a path for us creatives and artists to use our creative gifts in ways that can us from our culture’s distorted and shamed relationship with the human body. As usual when talking to Christopher, the Holy Spirit revealed some profound truths to us.

The book is called God is Beauty, and you can find it at bit.ly/godisbeauty

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