Vatican tries to woo back the art world

Daniel Libeskind, invited to the Vatican, won the competition to be the master plan architect for the reconstruction of the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan.

Pope Benedict has invited international artists, sculptors, architects, musicians, film directors and even a solitary Italian prima ballerina to meet him under the soaring vaulted ceiling of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on Saturday to begin a new dialogue between the Catholic Church and the arts.

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