... convinced believers that the only way to communicate with God is by the permission and intercession of a priest. This also leads to question of how accurately the Bible and its word were translated and interpreted by the church. Religion having been a powerful gateway of influence since its creation, what was to say that men, even of the cloth, would not lie ... I would have been unable to recognize this movie as philosophically valuable, much less decipher any meaning from the film that might merit didactic recognition. Scientists fret today to understand the origins of stigmata. "To e...

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