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Post by Stephen on Jul 20, 2017 12:25:38 GMT
I have not watched it yet. Just a few clips on youtube. What do people think of it?
First address to Cardinals: "Knock knock!" "Knock knock!" We're not in. Brother cardinals, from this day forward, we're not in, no matter who's knocking on our door. We're in, but only for God.
From this day forward, everything that was wide open is gonna be closed. Ecumenicalism. Been there, done that. Tolerance. Doesn't live here anymore. It's been evicted. It vacated the house for the new tenant, who has diametrically opposite tastes in decorating. We've been reaching out to others for years now. It's time to stop! We are not going anywhere. We are here. Because, what are we? We are cement. And cement doesn't move. We are cement without windows. So, we don't look to the outside world. "Only the Church possesses the charisma of truth", said St. Ignatius of Antioch. And he was right. We have no reason to look out.
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Post by kj on Jul 20, 2017 13:00:59 GMT
I watched a few episodes. The Pope character is wonderful and very funny, and I love his speeches.
I need to get back to it, although I confess to finding it slow and a little too aestheticised. Without wanting to spoil it for you, I gather the ending may be less to your liking, but it being tv, you probably knew that anyway.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jul 20, 2017 13:02:31 GMT
I watched a few episodes. It was intriguing, but just too bizarre. It was nice to see a show about a conservative Pope, but he's not exactly a hero and none of it bore much relation to actual debates within the Church in the last hundred years.
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Post by cato on Jul 21, 2017 10:59:16 GMT
It's a strange series but worth a watch.It shows all the marks of Paolo Sorrentino who is one of my favourite film directors. His best film to to date is The Great Beauty which is a meditation really on growing old , disillusionment , celebrity , friendship , death , holiness and the great city of Rome. There is a fabulous scene where the main character Jep Gambardella tears a middle class feminist marxist to pieces. I laughed so much I almost cried when I saw it.
At the very end of as the writing goes up the camera takes you on a trip under the bridges of Rome along the Tiber in a very moving meditative way. It's that rare species - a modern reverent film.
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