Pope Leo XIV meets Bizot Group

Pope Leo XIV met with museum directors at the Vatican on October 10, 2026.

Art as shared heritage

Pope Leo XIV says art safeguards a heritage that belongs to all humanity.

Art reveals creation's beauty

Art shows how humans enhance matter through creativity to share God's beauty.

“Art, Pope Leo says, 'is the means by which persons, through their ingenuity, enhance and transfigure matter, that is, the creation in which they dwell as made in the image and likeness of God.'”

Art proclaims Gospel through beauty

Pope Leo says art is not 'mere aestheticism' but a way to share the Gospel through beauty.

“The Church, as a pilgrim through time, has understood art precisely in this way: not as mere aestheticism, but as a means of proclaiming the Gospel through beauty.”