The Pope visits the Venice Biennial and asks for art to serve as a refuge against “violence and discrimination”

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Like in the past, his predecessors Popes Pablo VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI did, Pope Francis has met with contemporary great artists under Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. But this Sunday he took a step further and left the Vatican to find them in their own environment, at the Venice Biennale. The Pontiff began a deep dialogue with artists at the Vatican Pavilion of the Biennale, during which he compared art with the 'refuge…