Monday, April 24, 2006
WHAT NEXT ?...SATANIC ART IN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
or so some experts are claiming according to Yahoo News:
LOS ANGELES, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- "Rape of the Soul," the controversial new documentary film, which exposes pornographic and satanic images embedded in religious artworks and the Church's subsequent attempts to avoid their detection, continues its run at the AMC Esquire 6 Theater (58 E. Oak St.). The film is developing a "buzz" in the Chicago area, largely due to its assertion that Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral is the home of some of these sacrilegious embedded images, and comes on the heels of accusations of sex abuse cover-ups within the Chicago Archdiocese.
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I see that the source of the article is PRNewswire. Which means, I presume, that this is a press release. In any case, here's the movie website. Now who is behind it?
According to the article the mastermind is Michael A. Calace and his Silver Sword International.
Calace, a filmmaker, actor and devout Roman Catholic, first stumbled upon the idea for this film while creating "Intimate Fear," the first of a series of dramatic, family-oriented films that would "Merge Media with Morality," the mission of Silver Sword International. "Intimate Fear" required the use of a church for a few scenes in Toronto, Canada, but an unusual encounter with the Archdiocese of Toronto warranted further investigation, leading him to uncover a series of massive international religious scandals within his own beloved church.
Here is what Catholic blogger Gerald Augustinus has to say about it, including the ad he found following it in one location.
A review from the LA Weekly refuses to take the movie seriously:
Is Rape a hilariously stupid documentary or an ingenious put-on? Honest to God, it’s hard to tell, but in these Da Vinci Code days, one is tempted by cryptic Dan Brown-like clues to come down on the side of the latter.
Other than this independent review, there are almost no other sources for information on the movie except the promotional stuff.
