Word: catholicization
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He's seductively handsome, shyly (perhaps slyly) sexy. He is liberal-minded in the best and broadest sense of the term. He is ambitious to rise within his powerful if sclerotic organization--mostly because he wants to get its blood flowing. His only problem is that the bureaucracy to which...
Most of the uproar stems from a conservative organization called the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which previously assailed Disney's Miramax division, among other studios, for films it deemed blasphemous. Whether it will succeed with the utterly independent Samuel Goldwyn Films is more problematic. So far, the...
For once, you can believe a beleaguered distributor. The affair between Padre Amaro and Amelia ends in trag-edy. But before that occurs, director Carlos Carrera's handsome film offers a richly detailed portrait of a church not so much corrupt as morally lazy after centuries in command of an...
This reflects, of course, the long-standing anticlerical tradition of many Catholic countries. Indeed, the movie is an update of an 1875 Portuguese novel that is solidly in that tradition. As such, it deserves to be judged on its considerable merits as a compassionate critique--not of a belief system...
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops last week adopted a new policy for handling priests accused of sexual abuse. The plan amends the one adopted by the bishops in June but rejected by the Vatican out of concern that it denied clerics due process. How does the new plan work...