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...They told us we don't have a place in our government, and we don't know why.' THAIR AL-SHEEKH, priest at Sacred Heart Church in Baghdad, after the Iraqi parliament scrapped a provision in the country's election law that guarantees seats for Iraqi Christians...
...scene in the film felt truly comedic. Sidney sees the trailer for Sophie’s award-winning new movie, “Teresa: The Making of a Saint,” in which she plays a young Mother Teresa whose heart is torn between her love for a priest and her desire to help the poor. The trailer immediately provokes laughs because it raises the question that all moviegoers must ask at some point: “Why would anyone make this?” Unfortunately, this query applies all too readily to “How to Lose...
...Raleigh, N.C.—the interior of Tuckers Chapel, a trailer church, in which a former Satanist-priest, among other large, red-faced Christian men, claims the Bible saved him from drugs and prostitution. Here, we quickly learn Maher has some serious balls. “How can smart people believe in a talking snake?” he asks. Later, after a round of farewell hugs, he cries, “Hey, where’s my wallet?” Priceless nervous laughter ensues...
...Thursday's Mass in Rome, Benedict lavished praise on Pius, who was the Pope when the then young German first became a priest. Like those who have actively campaigned for his beatification, the Pope said that Pius used a few pointed public - but mostly private - acts of diplomacy to try to prevent what turned into the slaughter of 6 million European Jews. He cited Pius' 1942 Christmas radio message. "With a voice broken with emotion, he deplored the situation of 'hundreds of thousands of persons who, for no fault of their own, only for reason of nationality or ethnic roots...
...Which is what, at its infrequent best, Religulous is: not so much a movie, more a series of interviews with the kookier, clueless representatives of the faithful. Maher chats up one guy who used to be a Satanist priest and a fundamentalist minister whom God cured of being gay. He talks with born-again truckers, and some evangelists who make a plush living off the generous contributions of their cash-strapped communicants. He visits the Creation Museum and an Orlando theme park called the Holy Land Experience, where the actor playing Jesus flunks Maher's quiz on some of Christianity...