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This movie strives and succeeds in its portrayal of Indians and whites as human beings, rather than as villains or saints.
Perhaps this was true of the times, but Finch's presentation (though not campy) has cartoonish leanings and nostalgic overtures that don't express anything more than what most people already realize: the cops were corrupt, the gays were not saints, and they clashed.
The whole premise of the movie is that these brothers or "saints" are trying to rid the streets of evil.
As is typical in Mexico it seems that women can only be either saints or whores -- and the novel and screenplay were written by a woman!
In the past few years, amidst forgettable roles in I, Robot, and Constantine, he contributed strong performances in films like A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, and now in the thriller Disturbia.
A woman, Anna Magnani again, makes remember us the mistery of creation, with symbolic references to some christian icons (as virgins, poor people, saints, etc.).
Alejandro Springall's movie SANTITOS (LITTLE SAINTS) is a pure joy to watch.
And in Latin-American culture, once a saint appears, you have to listen and act accordingly; after all, saints are all-knowing and have miracles to perform.
For Esperanza, a miracle would be to be reunited with Blanca, but what she ignores is that saints and spirits work in special ways and put our love and devotion to the test.
The fracas in question had, according to news reports, George Clooney and the All Saints cowering under tables.
The Temptation of Theresa MayLONDON – The three great Theresas in history are all saints.
When English Protestants challenged the power of the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, mobs laid waste to stone-carved saints and other holy representations with pick-hammers and axes.
St. Francis is among the most popular Catholic saints because of his reputation as a friend of animals.
Joan of Arc described hearing the voices of saints telling her to free her country from the English.
Of course, few saints grace Ukrainian politics.
Sufism comprises a variety of independent orders with distinctive beliefs and practices that are derived from numerous saints’ teachings.
For example, this summer, the radical Islamist militia Ansar Dine took advantage of the chaos that has gripped northern Mali in the wake of a coup to desecrate mausoleums of Sufi saints in Timbuktu, which has been a center of Islamic learning since the fifteenth century.
Of course, no one is developing a “moral pill” that will transform us into saints.
Given this commitment, subsidy for the opera raises an obvious question: Since liberals are opposed to the establishment of religion, how can they justify supporting the establishment of one of the great totems of secular humanism — the operas of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and other lesser saints in the secular canon?
The Crusades from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, for example, brought forth what MacKay described as “epidemic frenzy” among would-be crusaders in Europe, accompanied by delusions that God would send armies of saints to fight alongside them.
History is not an idyll and politicians' biographies do not read like the lives of the saints.
As a result, the creation of saints is becoming an important way of retaining the faithful.
Indeed, the choice of a Latin American pope echoes a prior shift in the geographical distribution of new saints.
The rationale for this shift is to use national saints to inspire Catholics – and thereby counter the competition from Protestants, especially Evangelicals.
The idea of using saints to compete with evangelicals in Latin America goes back a long way – the friars accompanying conquering Spanish troops introduced patron saints in every nucleated community.
Coupled with persistent shortages of priests, the worship of saints in Latin America became more embedded in the region’s culture than in that of Europe.
He also made 80 saints, compared to a prior total of 165.
Pope Benedict XVI’s (2005-2013) large number of saints (44) reflects mainly the large stock of beatified people left behind by John Paul II.
Where will the next saints come from?
But they also do not expect their elected representatives to be saints.
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