With our current focus on Latin America and Africa my mind inevitably
turns to that most popular form of cultural expression, the cinema film.
With its encompassing beauty I was shocked but not surprised to hear that in the materialistic 80's Morricone's The Mission was a complete flop.
It was an excellent film, but given that they all die one which my pragmatic father cannot see the point of!
One scene in particular comes to mind. Iron's Gabriel is speaking to
Jean, the young Jesuit played by an concurrently young Liam Neeson,
The brothers think that De Niro's done enough Father
Yes but he doesn't think so Jean, we are part of an order, not a democracy
One thing is for sure, with 42% of the world's Catholics speaking
Spanish if the church was indeed a democracy the conclave would be a
foregone conclusion.
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