Summary
Constantine's Sword, documentary on religious accountability, not rated, The Screen, 473-6494, 3 chiles
James Carroll grew up wanting to be a Catholic priest or an Air Force pilot. He chose the former path, but in 1973, after five years as an antiwar-activist priest during Vietnam, he left the priesthood because of his profound discomfort with what he called the church's tacit complicity in the war. Appearing later on a television talk show, he observed that if the United States had been dropping contraceptives over North Vietnam instead of napalm, the Catholic church would have been quick to condemn it.See the full content of this document
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Inward, Christian Soldiers
The sermon Carroll preaches in this thoughtful but sometimes undercooked documentary is the need for his church to accept accountability for its actions and attitudes, particularly with regard to anti-Semitism. He is also deeply troubled by wh...
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