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Martin Scorsese’s Jesus Film Collaborator Father Spadaro Reveals Early Draft of Script in New Book – Read an Excerpt (EXCLUSIVE)
Martin Scorsese's movie about Jesus will also be a reflection on his body of work, says Father Spadaro, a priest with whom Scorsese has collaborated.
The conference was organized by Jesuit publication “La Civiltà Cattolica.” It took place after the journal’s editor, Father Antonio Spadaro, held a series of one-on-one conversations with Scorsese that have just been published in Italy in book titled “Dialoghi sulla fede” (“Dialogues on Faith”). When he says that [about removing the “negative onus”] he says it because he has clearly seen and experienced the involvement of the Church in scandals, in abuse., in everything that has nothing to do with spirituality and which has almost put a veil and created a distance [with Catholicism]. VOICE: Like millions of other children around the world, I grew up surrounded by images of Jesus, all based on a common idea of his appearance and behavior: handsome, with wonderful long hair and beard, ascetic, pious…
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