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Moore' Christ-like face lends an ironic dimension to J.B.'s suffering. Even blind and mutilated, the victim of some apocalyptic atomic blast, Moore's J.B. unleashes a 50-megaton cry to God for justice, for a reason. He cannot accept the logic of the grinning, trembling priest--David Van Taylor shines as this Father O'Malley through Stanley Kubrick's lens. The priest offers a straight-forward answer to J.B.'s questions and MacLeish's Question: "Your sin is simple. You were born...
...despite the primitive religiosity of the culture that lay beyond Eboli, even the Saviour would have stopped before entering a realm "hedged in by custom and sorrow . . . without comfort or solace." What Levi -played with patient sympathy and intelligence by Gian Maria Volonte - finds in Lucania is a drunken priest who is sometimes stoned by the village children, a bombastic mayor with the habit of summoning everyone to the town square to hear his empty Fascist orations, doctors whose medical skills are scarcely more advanced than the folk medicine the towns people practice. The hints of a modern world that...
Others in the cast, like Lawrence Aronovitch's Third Priest or Kevin Porter's Second Tempter, build more convincing vocal profiles, giving Eliot's conundrums a sonorous base. The four knights (John Piccione, Rick Reynolds, Ted Glowacky, and David Lanznar) also perform their dual task well, first doing away with Becket rudely and quickly, then tempting the audience to grant them forgiveness...
...Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what one of them, Catholic Priest Darrell Rupiper of Omaha, said would be a message of "reconciliation between America and Iran...
...like Romero's assassination, was a tragic demonstration of how even the church has become a political battleground in predominantly Roman Catholic El Salvador. Of the country's five surviving bishops, only one had seen fit to attend Romero's funeral. The others, described by one priest as "very, very conservative," had been vehemently opposed to Romero's bold stands against the country's repressive oligarchy, which would welcome a military dictatorship. The country's priests are also divided between active, largely urban adherents of so-called liberation theology, and conservative, mostly rural guardians...