by Philip Jenkins | Sep 14, 2018 | Opinion
Hollywood normally does a poor job of portraying religion or comprehending regular religious practice – especially Christianity. I commented on this recently, but this post concerns the dilemma of just how acute those difficulties need to be before the film or TV...
by Francis Rocca | Apr 11, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The official Vatican newspaper has praised two recent Hollywood movies for showing the ethical downsides of sperm donation. In the lead article in the Saturday (April 9) edition of L’Osservatore Romano, Carlo Bellieni writes in “When Cinema Tells...
by Cliff Vaughn | May 20, 2004 | News
Washington should not legislate smoking on the silver screen, says the man who manages motion picture interests. “I don’t believe that whatever the director does ought to incite the intervention of the government in any form,” Jack Valenti, CEO of...