The Book: The church needs artists. The church needs musicians. The church needs architects, Pope John Paul II writes, because society needs artists, just as it needs scientists, technicians, workers, professional people, witnesses of the faith, teachers, fathers and mothers. With this letter, I turn to you, the artists of the world, to assure you of my esteem. I appeal to you, artists of written and spoken word, of the theater and music, of the plastic arts and the most recent technologies in the field of communication: You are invited to use your creative intuition to enter into the heart of the Incarnate God and at the same time to enter into the mystery of humanity.
