Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The chief purveyor of this political revisionism is ex-priest John Dominic Crossan, a professor of biblical studies at Catholic DePaul University. In Crossan's view, the Gospel accounts are parables about power and authority in the new church. "[Israel] was an occupied country with a lot of poverty, malnutrition...
FATHER GREG (LINUS ROACHE), the young priest at a Catholic parish in Liverpool, is handsome, theologically conservative--and gay. His boss, Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), spouts socialist dogma and has sex with his live-in housekeeper. The husband of the parish's hardest-working volunteer forces sex on their daughter...
Priest, then, is no Going My Way. And Good Friday was perhaps not the ideal day for Miramax Films to schedule Priest for wide release. Small wonder that a few of the faithful were miffed. The Catholic League threatened a boycott of Miramax's owner, the Walt Disney Co., before...
For many modern Catholics, the question of a gay clergy inspires a big shrug. Why shouldn't homosexuals (and women) be priests? These days, they are among the few who want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest...
Some find the process all too rigorous. Says Father Paolino Rossi, whose job, in effect, is lobbying for would-be saints from his own Capuchin order: "It's pretty disappointing when you work for years and years and then see the miracle get rejected." But others suggest it could be...