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As a rule, movies about living popes — like those made by Gianfranco Rosi, Wim Wenders and Evgeny Afineevsky about Pope Francis in recent years — are intended for devout believers, while ...
We're discussing the voting process depicted in the new papal thriller "Conclave" (in theaters now). Light spoilers ahead! Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of ...
Starring Ralph Fiennes and set within the private inner sanctum of the Vatican, the movie treats the papal balloting like a thriller. Review: In 'Conclave,' a quest to elect a new pope leads down ...
After the Pope dies of a heart attack, the College of Cardinals, under the leadership of Dean Thomas Lawrence, convenes to elect his successor.The four leading candidates are Aldo Bellini of the United States, a liberal in the vein of the late Pope; Joshua Adeyemi of Nigeria, a social conservative; Joseph Tremblay of Canada, a moderate; and Goffredo Tedesco of Italy, a staunch traditionalist.
Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...
The film raised several controversies because of its portrait of Pope Pius XII and its historical inaccuracies. Chief rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni described the film as "a propagandistic piece of crap, an apologetic work" which was "full of errors and inaccuracies" and "absolutory on the choices, events and silences of the papacy of Pius XII ...
According to Variety, The Two Popes was "an unexpected hit" at its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, receiving praise for its humor and the two lead actors' performances. [23] On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 229 reviews, with an average of 7.3/10.
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