“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair”. ~John Paul II, Letter to Artists~   One of the reasons I love being around kids is that they ask the honest questions that adults are too afraid to ask.  When traveling to Florence with kids, a question that will almost inevitably come up is, “Why so many naked people?”  I’m not talking about the people passing by, but everywhere you look — in churches, piazzas, and museums — there are naked people depicted in very life-like reality. It might surprise you that the Church was one of the greatest patrons of the arts — and without the Church,…