THE Catholic Church in Ireland has called for the immediate ban of a newly produced movie, where a character featured as a lesbian nun.
Titled, “Benedetta,” the film directed by the popular director, Paul Verhoeven and produced by the film company, Mubi, is set to be released today, April 15 – Good Friday.
The chosen release date of the flick, which is meant for Easter going by the theme, has generated a lot of controversies among Christian faithful for promoting lesbianism and perversion.
A Catholic activist organisation, the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISFCC) has demanded that the movie be pulled down.
The group in a petition titled ‘STOP MUBI’s & Verhoeven’s Benedetta Movie (sic)’, described the movie as a “smart smut attack on the Holy Catholic Church.
“It’s highly touted, blasphemous and impure; a shocking attack on Good Friday, which horribly insults Our Lady and her Son.’
Addressing the distribution company directly, the petition reads: “I strongly oppose and condemn your distribution and promotion of Paul Verhoeven’s film Benedetta. It offends God, and countless Catholics all over the world.”
The ISFCC urged other Catholics across the the globe to sign the petition, which so far has garnered over 13,000 signatures.
According to the ISFCC, Benedetta features several Jesus-on-nun intense ‘make outs’, a statuette of Mary Most Holy used as a sex-toy (and) voyeuristic lesbian nuns’ pornography. The group called on filmmakers to “promote virtue, not vice.”
Reports say the movie has already been banned in Singapore but has been met with favorable ratings in the West.
“Benedetta” tells the story of a real-life 17th-century woman who becomes entangled in an affair with another nun in her convent, before their romance is discovered by the church.
The movie also appears to be marked by stigmata – the miraculous appearance of Jesus Christ’s wounds on a person’s body.
Loosely based on a true story, director Paul set the film on the 1986 non-fiction book “Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy”.
