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Like Joan of Arc, Michel Collin was born into a Lorraine peasant family, and like the Maid, he heard voices. "You will become a priest, then a bishop, and finally Pope," he recalls Jesus telling him. To a purported 50,000 followers in Western Europe, Canada and the U.S., Collin is now Pope Clement XV of the "Renewed Church." Paul VI, of the Vatican, is a mere usurper...
...moonfaced, high-voiced claimant of the papal tiara is a former Roman Catholic priest who was defrocked by Pius XII in 1951 for founding, without permission, an order called the Apostles of Infinite Love. In 1960, says Collin, the Virgin of Fatima told the local bishop that the next Pope would be called Clement XV. The bishop told the Vatican, Collin says...
...detail. Fukae Roshū's Pass Through Mount Utsu, with its flattened, stylized mountain, green hills and brilliant red ivy tendrils hung against a spaceless ground of gold leaf, comes from a 10th century travel diary, the Tale of Ise. The voyaging hero has just given a mendicant priest a poem to take to a "lady in the capital...
...second half of the film we meet Hoichi, the ballad singer, living seven hundred years after the battle. He is a blind, self-effacing young man, the only character in the four films who is sufficiently developed to completely win our sympathies. Hoichi is caught between allegiance to the priest he serves and the spirits who summon him to sing each night. Kobayashi permits here the introduction of all manner of implied themes-the autonomy of art, tensions between organized religion and spirituality, illusion us, reality and so on-but these are all carefully subordinated to the thoroughly human struggle...
...both; many provided inadequate food and clothing. One of the worst was the Institute of Jesus the Divine Worker, where the toilets and other plumbing were out of order and the children's bed sheets had not been changed for two months. The institute's director, a priest named Don Carlo Quadrucci. 30, protested: "We know that conditions are not perfect, but our critics should realize what sacrifices this work costs us. We consider our work a mission." Five days later, police arrested Quadrucci and accused him of making homosexual assaults on some of his young charges...