Given that yesterday was the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima and the joyful peal of St. Peter's bells still echoes around the world marking the election of our new Holy Father, it's the perfect time to talk about beauty.

After all, beauty is at the heart of everything Catholic.

God is beautiful.

Our Lady is beautiful.

Our Church is beautiful.

I could go on...

But what is beauty? How can we define it? Do you know it when you see it? Is it even necessary for something to be beautiful if it is Catholic? Where does beauty fit into the everyday?

These are important questions deserving great answers...and we've got them in this episode of the Art of Catholic podcast.

Visit Fatima & Lourdes with Matthew!

From March 9-18, 2026, we'll be touring some of the holiest and most beautiful places in all the world: Fatima, Lourdes, Salamanca, Avila, Loyola, Lisbon, and more! Click here for all the details!

Join me and John Mark Miravalle, Professor at Mount St. Mary's Seminary and author of Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters, as we discuss:

• Why beauty is essential to truth
• The crucial role of surprise in beauty
• The difference between beauty and manipulation
• Why beauty must be “felt”
• The moral DUTY of beauty for Christians
• Why “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is wrong
• And much more!

God bless!

Matthew