The Vatican is set to stage its first ever musical next week (begs16Jun08) about the life of the Virgin Mary.
Alma Manera, a former Miss Italy contestant, will play the lead role in Mary of Nazareth, A Story that Goes On - the first ever musical to be performed in the Holy See's Paul VI Auditorium, which has previously only hosted classical concerts.
The production, which traces the life story of Jesus' virgin mother, has been officially blessed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state.
Alma Manera, a former Miss Italy contestant, will play the lead role in Mary of Nazareth, A Story that Goes On - the first ever musical to be performed in the Holy See's Paul VI Auditorium, which has previously only hosted classical concerts.
The production, which traces the life story of Jesus' virgin mother, has been officially blessed by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state.
- 6/13/2008
- WENN
NEMI, Italy -- A top Vatican official blasted the Italian media Tuesday and Wednesday, accusing it of revealing a bias against the church by focusing too much coverage on church-related sex scandals.
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, a Cardinal, this week issued a series of statements critical of television and print media coverage of a pair of sex scandals: one that alleges clergy paid off a 24-year-old man to keep his allegations of sexual abuse under wraps, and another involving an 82-year-old priest accused of abusing patients in a drug rehab center he operates.
Italian media coverage has been "shameful and mystifying," Bertone said, adding that paying too much attention to the charges was "a false way to present the church, as if you presented a dark fragment of the great Sistine Chapel and said that represented the whole masterpiece."
"Sometimes it seems there is a plan" to the media coverage, Bertone said. "It is absolutely something to condemn."
The media coverage of the alleged scandals started in May, when RAI aired a series of programs looking into the details, including a BBC documentary alleging pedophilia by priests.
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, a Cardinal, this week issued a series of statements critical of television and print media coverage of a pair of sex scandals: one that alleges clergy paid off a 24-year-old man to keep his allegations of sexual abuse under wraps, and another involving an 82-year-old priest accused of abusing patients in a drug rehab center he operates.
Italian media coverage has been "shameful and mystifying," Bertone said, adding that paying too much attention to the charges was "a false way to present the church, as if you presented a dark fragment of the great Sistine Chapel and said that represented the whole masterpiece."
"Sometimes it seems there is a plan" to the media coverage, Bertone said. "It is absolutely something to condemn."
The media coverage of the alleged scandals started in May, when RAI aired a series of programs looking into the details, including a BBC documentary alleging pedophilia by priests.
- 8/23/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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