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Pope Enlists Filmmaker to Spread Message of 'Laudato Si'
UCANews ^ | 12/8/22

Posted on 12/08/2022 7:38:19 PM PST by marshmallow

Pope Francis is getting more non-Catholics to do his work.

The latest is Nicolas Brown, who directed "The Letter: A Message for Our Earth," a documentary on the pope's 2015 encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."

The 90-minute film will air Wednesday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m.-9:30 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings). But for those who can't wait that long, the documentary is already on YouTube, which helped produce it.

"We decided to make this film and not put it behind a paywall. We purposely did not go to Netflix and put it behind the reach of anybody," Brown told Catholic News Service during a Dec. 7 video interview. Brown was speaking from Oxford, England, where he is at work on other environment-related projects.

"YouTube is a sort of spiritual place. PBS took on that spirit as well. They don't feel that they (the two services) overlap. They both feel they want to hear this message, which speaks to very different demographics inside society, which I think is very good sign for the environment."

Brown grew up a Lutheran in Colorado. "Because of the small numbers of people at confirmation camp," he said, there was a strong presence of "evangelical Christianity, which had a very literal interpretation" of the Bible. Brown shunned both the evangelicals and his own faith tradition as a result. "I carried this prejudice with me for 20 years," he disclosed.

He said he was skeptical when approached about making a film about the pope's encyclical, which addresses caring for creation and the interconnectivity of all life on the planet.

(Excerpt) Read more at ucanews.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: ecofascism

1 posted on 12/08/2022 7:38:19 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Fake pope douchebag making some fan fiction.


2 posted on 12/08/2022 8:07:09 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY
"I'm not Catholic, I'm not religious. I'm agnostic, let's say," Brown said.

Same with Bergoglio.

3 posted on 12/09/2022 8:13:03 AM PST by ebb tide
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