A State of Beauty

Purpose:

In a "State of Beauty" we serve to direct those within the entertainment industry and the Catholic entertainment consumer to resources that will provide the foundation and help foster a "new ethos" in entertainment that will pervade our culture with truth, beauty, and goodness - a STATE OF BEAUTY.

Services to entertainment community and consumer:

We will be providing artists with resources to read about and forums to dialogue about the essence of truth, beauty, and goodness that will help inform their work.  New Ethos will provide references to philosophical and theological reading materials, seminars and classes within the Los Angeles area that focus on classical Greek philosophy, Fathers of the Church and other noted theologians, and other respected resources in aesthetics, art, and business ethics that contribute to a better understanding of the universal values of truth, beauty, and goodness.  New Ethos will also provide guidance, resources, and forums that will serve the Catholic community to better identify, experience and appreciate entertainment.

Theological Resources:

  1. The artistic vocation in the service of beauty [Pope John Paul II, Letter To Artists, N. 3].
  2. A fruitful alliance between the Gospel and art [Pope John Paul II, Letter To Artists, N. 6]
  3. In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council [Pope John Paul II - Letter To Artists, N. 11] 
  • "This world—they said—in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. "