In L'Osservatore Romano
"Without doing so explicitly, the #Pope was referencing the ideas of German philosopher Martin #Heidegger, a brilliant, unsettling and central figure of the 1900s, who developed this concept of existence as “being towards death”, in his essays. According to the Pope, the presence of art and artists is a denial of this idea and, confirming this immediately after, he quotes Hannah #Arendt , who was first Heidegger’s pupil and then his lover..."