Beauty

In Oklahoma, I attended church at the Osage Cathedral.
When the priest attempted to "modernize" and whitewash the church, the tribal officials went to him and reminded him that their money paid for the church, and he had no right to destroy it.

Alas, other Indian churches were not so lucky...and some of the beautiful ethnic churches of Western Pennsylvania were similarly destroyed.

One of the side effects of this destruction of the beautiful in Catholic art is that our artistic heritage has rearisen in the New age and Wiccan movements.

for example, Ursi's link at the side has many beautiful entries with links to art. But she is not a Christian (pray for her). and except for a few "JP2 generation" sites like the previous link, we see little emphasis on beauty in institutional Catholic links, perhaps because the US Bishops bureaucracy is full of progressive nuns and priests who think they are artisitic but lack talent (the Salieri syndrome).