Da Vinci Code

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Is the Roman Catholic Church Unreasonable in Denying Da Vinci Code Filmmakers from its Churches?

by Fr. Don Woznicki - June 17, 2008

Rome's Archdiocese said Monday it has barred the producers of "Angels & Demons" (Sony Pictures) from filming in two Roman churches for the prequel to “The Da Vinci Code”, the popular book and film that angered many Catholic leaders.  Producers of the film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, were turned down because the movie "does not conform to our views," said Monsignor Marco Fibbi, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Rome.

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Pope Paul VI - Message To Artists

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Second Vatican Council
Closing speech December 8, 1965

(read by Leo Cardinal Suenens of Malines Brussels, Belgium, assisted by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore and Jaime Cardinal de Barros Camara of Rio de Janeiro.)

We now address you, artists, who are taken up with beauty and work for it: poets and literary men, painters, sculptors, architects, musicians, men devoted to the theater and the cinema. To all of you, the Church of the council declares to you through our voice: if you are friends of genuine art, you are our friends.

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State of Beauty (Part 1)

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Theo-philosophical Perspective from Pope John Paul II:

The artistic vocation in the service of beauty

This is part of a series of New Ethos articles that provides a perspective on how to build a "new ethos" in entertainment where truth, beauty, and goodness pervade our culture - a STATE OF BEAUTY.

“This world—they said—in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair.”
[Pope John Paul II - Letter To Artists (1999), N. 3]

A noted Polish poet, Cyprian Norwid, wrote that “beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up”.(1)

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State of Beauty (Part 2)

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Theo-philosophical Perspective from Pope John Paul II:

A fruitful alliance between the Gospel and Art

This is part of a series of New Ethos articles that provides a perspective on how to build a "new ethos" in entertainment where truth, beauty, and goodness pervade our culture - a STATE OF BEAUTY.

“This world—they said—in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair.”
[Pope John Paul II - Letter To Artists, N. 6]

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State of Beauty (Part 3)

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Theo-philosophical Perspective from Pope John Paul II:

In the spirit of the Second Vatican Council

This is part of a series of New Ethos articles that provides a perspective on how to build a "new ethos" in entertainment where truth, beauty, and goodness pervade our culture - a STATE OF BEAUTY.

“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair."
[Pope John Paul II - Letter To Artists, N. 11]

 

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