THIS WEEK

 

Highlights from the printed edition:

Sanctity and sacrilege
From Hollywood’s silent era to today’s summer blockbusters, Catholic priests have long been a staple of the silver screen.
— page 12

After five years
In an article written last spring, Vatican correspondent Marco Politi suggested that Benedict XVI’s pontificate can now be broken into two halves: before and after the storm created by the pope’s lifting of the excommunications from the four schismatic bishops, one of whom is a Holocaust-denier, writes Rev. Richard McBrien.
— page 19

Inflamed passions
Passion plays remain a flashpoint between Christians and Jews, writes Rabbi James Rudin. “Since 1970, I have worked with Oberammergau leaders in efforts to rid their production of its hostile stereotypes and caricatures of Jews and Judaism.”
— page 20