Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Gospel According to St. Matthew


Is Italy a Catholic country or a Communist country? Pier Paulo Pasolini was a heretic and Communist who made one of the most sacrilegious works of all time, Salo based on Sade's 120 Days of Sodom. Still his Gospel According to St. Matthew was called one of the greatest Jesus films of all time by the Vatican.Graham Greene created a defrocked priest, who is Christ symbol, in The Power and the Glory. Being a prophet is a lonely project. Pasolini's brand of Catholicism could be found in the Ragazi di vita the impoverished young criminals like Ettore in Mamma Roma, portrayed chained to a prison hospital bed in a homage to Mantegna’s "Lamentation of Christ." The old PCI was as much a representative of the faith as Savonarola or Opus Dei.

read "Limbo" by Francis Levy, Evergreen Review

and listen to "Love's in Need of Love Today" by Stevie Wonder

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