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Wykorzystywanie seksualne małoletnich przez duchownych w kinematografii: nierozpoznane znaki czasu
2021
Contemporary theology applies the old notion of loci theologici also to media and film. It is not only films that are directly religious (biblical, hagiographies, etc.) that have theological significance, but also those that take up topics related to the Church in a critical way. Therefore, one should be aware of the appearance of successive films, documentaries and feature films, which raise the issue of sexual abuse against the youngest (paedophilia) also in the Church. The article presents the most important films, whose authors present the perpetrators of paedophilia, the mechanisms leading to its concealment and silence not only in the Church, but also in the media and society, as well…
Cinema as locus theologicus: Popes in film (from Leo XIII till Benedict XVI)
2020
Bishops of Rome have been, since the dawn of the cinema, a subject interesting for filmmakers and important for the Church, as a source of information on the papacy. Numerous feature and documentary films presented biographies, activities or teaching of the Popes. But in the context of theology, we should not forget that a film – be it biographical, historical or telling merely a fictional story – can be regarded as a locus theologicus. However, fictionalised biographies of the Popes are not strictly historical films, neither are these films hagiographies, because the view of the Pope is taken from an external perspective, distant from the faith. Rather, it is a particular genre, which chal…