Constantine’s Sword to arrive with the pope
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Talk about timing.
On April 18, the day the pope arrives in NY (and the eve of the eve of Passover), a film based on James Carroll’s book Constantine’s Sword will open at New York’s Lincoln Plaza Cinema.
Carroll is a former Catholic priest and sharp critic of the Catholic Church. His book is largely about the history of anti-Semitism in the church.
A release says that in the film “Carroll raises difficult questions about Pope Benedict’s leadership.”
The timing of the premiere will, one has to believe, strike some people as inappropriate.
Here is a synopsis of the film from its website:
Constantine’s Sword is the story of James Carroll; a former Catholic priest on a journey to confront his past and uncover the roots of religiously inspired violence and war. His search also reveals a growing scandal involving religious infiltration of the U.S. military and the terrible consequences of religion’s influence on America’s foreign policy.Carroll focuses on Christian antisemitism as the model for all religious hatred, exposing the cross as a symbol of a long history of violence against Jews (and, most recently, Moslems). The film brings the history of religious intolerance to life, tracing it as a source of the fanaticism that threatens the world today. At its core, Constantine’s Sword is a compelling personal narrative — a kind of detective story — as one man uncovers the dark areas of his own past, searching for a better future.
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on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 1:18 pm by Gary Stern.
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The world of religion, we don't have to tell you, is vast. The purpose of this blog is for Stern to note, flag and comment on some of the more interesting religious developments on the scene – weighty and quirky, somber and laughable, far away and just down the road. He won't interpret Scripture, take sides in conflicts or judge anyone. But he will take advantage of the journalist's license to observe.
Carroll is a self hating liberal Catholic, just go away along with the rest of the “progressives” in the Church, your fraud has been exposed…