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The Hall of Mirrors in Versailles is a marvel of beauty, proportion, and harmony, yet it also reflects a Naturalism and flight from the cross of Christ.
The Christian soul is not only expressed by religious images and symbols in churches, but is also found in ambiences where one may imbibe the Christian spirit.
Much higher than physical beauty is the supernatural beauty that shines in the countenance in one who has spent his or her life practicing virtue.
Legitimate authorities must use symbols and uniforms that reflect the beauty and legitimacy of its authority. Egalitarian dress undermines this authority.
Christian femininity is graceful, elegant, virtuous, strong, and kind. Communism produces a feminine type that is gross, masculine, brutal, and indecent.
Unlike modern clothing, traditional European dress is noble, refined, and beautiful.
The neo-barbarians produced by Communism, Marxism, and socialism, having rejected Christianity are worse than pagan savages who never knew civilization.
Affairs of state should take place in ambiences of good taste, distinction, brilliance, and majesty, and not in surroundings that are ugly, sinister, and materialistic.
Queen Elizabeth represents refinement, grace, noble superiority, charm, and affability, Eva Peron a modern feminine "style" that clashes with the former.
The Angelus by Jean-François Millet shows the beauty and dignity of Catholic manual labor, while Yves Alix's "Le Maitre des Moissons" reflects a vulgar materialism.