Angels & Demons is coming out soon. Of course, its full of misrepresentations of Catholicism (big surprise there). Where Hollywood goes out of its way to equalize Muslim characters (one bad is countered with one good), no such courtesy is given to the big bad Catholic Church.
There's a great article about this at Christianity Today located here:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/news/2009/ishollywoodanticatholic.html?start=1
One of my favorite quotes from the article is as follows:
Rome's foes today "aren't debating transubstantiation, they're debating transgender," said Catholic film critic David DiCerto. "They aren't debating the real presence [of Christ] in the Eucharist, they're debating the real presence of humanity in the womb. It's much more the hot-button moral issues than the hot-button theological issues."
That's why we created Sonlight Pictures, to help bring a positive face to Catholics through positive portrayals of Catholic characters.
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