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Catholic Film Festival Goes to Rome
Movies will focus on Jesus, Blessed John Paul II, the priesthood and Pope Pius XII.
Share by CAROL GLATZ (CNS) 05/09/2011

ROME (CNS) — Under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture, a Rome film festival will feature historic and modern films that highlight Jesus, the priesthood and Pope Pius XII.

The International Catholic Film Festival also will award a new prize — “The Silver Fish” — for best film, best documentary, best short film, best actor/actress and best director, chosen from a total of 746 films that “promote universal moral values” and positive role models, festival organizers said in a May 9 press release...

The May 12-21 festival will be in a concert hall just blocks from St. Peter’s Square.

Italian Biblicist and composer, Msgr. Marco Frisina, said art is a valuable way to communicate important values because “it can open the heart even in people who don’t believe” in God...

The next day was to be dedicated to “the priest in the collective imagination” and was to show the 2010 French film "Of Gods and Men" as well as Alfred Hitchcock’s 1953 drama "I Confess" starring Montgomery Clift as a Catholic priest.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/catholic-film-festival-goes-to-rome

Well, you can bet your last rosary that an out Montgomery Clift wouldn't be playing a priest nowadays. Bill Donohue at the Catholic League would bust a blood vessel.

As for that bushwah about how art can "open the heart even in people who don’t believe” in God..."

Psst, Monsignor - ever heard "Ave Maria?" You DO know Giuseppe Verdi was an atheist, don't you?

[AlecBGreen]

1. I thought this was from the Onion lol

"The International Catholic Film Festival also will award a new prize — “The Silver Fish” — for best film..."

p.s. Bushwah... havent heard that in a while. Its going back into my rotation. Gracias!

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2. Thanks! I thought the same thing at first.

Then I thought maybe somebody had hijacked that official Catholic website. Nope, it appears to be legit.

I'm waiting for Mel Gibson's next movie - a religious historical romance based on The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.