“Movie distribution company relies on predictable outrage to market movie for them. Movie distribution company is not disappointed.
Actually, movie distribution company is overwhelmed by the success of their decision”
And they should, fuckin rude to open it on Easter. Fuckin coulda opened it any other day of the year.
But sure the nuns have loads of lesbians. And the priesthood has lots of gays.
“Alexa play Liveline
They think the release on good Friday is “calculated to insult Catholics everywhere”, lol cry harder
If it’s only released today, have any of their members seen it?
I always wonder about groups protesting things they haven’t seen or witnessed themselves. And yes, it’ll have the exact opposite impact they want it to have on the film.
I’d never heard of it, I’ll be checking it out for sure now.
Are they hot tho?
>The Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISCC) says that “Benedetta” being released in Ireland and the UK on Good Friday is “a calculated insult to Christians everywhere.”
About the ISCC:
>Another ultra-conservative Catholic network — Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) — whose US branch spent at least $100,000 in Europe since 2010 according to openDemocracy, and who run “chivalry camps”, also has a presence in Ireland.
>
>Here in Ireland, it goes by the name of the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation — TFP.
>
>It runs “rosary rallies” and summer camps here, for boys and their fathers, where stories of Catholic heroes are told, presenting “true role models” for the participants to follow.
>
>The organisation, which is also registered with the Irish charity regulator, said its aim “is to resist, in the realm of ideas, the atheistic, liberal, and socialist trends of our times and proudly affirm the positive values of Christian civilisation, through the dissemination of religious articles and Catholic literature, especially of the message of Fatima”.
>
>While no link has been found connecting ultraconservative groups to Irish political parties, ties have been shown with Ireland, and these groups are still a cause for concern at a European political level.
>
>([Special Report – Far right in Ireland: ‘Dark money’ and the price of democracy](https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30929727.html))
–
Anyways…
>[Raunchy lesbian nun thriller based on a true story that features a Virgin Mary SEX TOY – summary](https://archive.ph/xmkDe):
>
>Born in 1591, Benedetta Carlini grew up in a respectable middle-class Italian family who educated her – a rarity for the time – and paid particular attention to her religious upbringing.
>
>By the age of five, she knew the litany of the saints and other prayers by heart. At the age of six, Benedetta learned to read and even knew a little from Latin.
>
>One day, when Benedetta was still a young girl, a black dog tried to drag her away but was frightened off by her screams. But when her mother appeared, the dog had vanished. The family decided that it had in fact been the devil disguised as an animal.
>
>She also claimed to be able to communicate with a nightingale, a symbol of carnal love.
>
>Benedetta entered The Convent of the Mother of God in Pescia, Tuscany, at the age of nine.
>
>At the time in Renaissance Italy, middle-class families often ‘bought’ their daughters a place at a convent because it was a quarter of the cost of a marriage dowry and conferred respectability.
>
>Shortly after arriving at the convent, Benedetta was almost crushed by a statue of the Madonna while praying. She thought this was a miracle and showed that the statue wanted to kiss her. The young novice took this as a sign of the power of God.
>
>However her early years in the convent were otherwise unremarkable. It was only at the age of 23 that she first reported the supernatural visions.
>
>She reported ‘visions’ which came to her, including one in which Jesus asked to take her as his wife.
>
>Other visions were more graphic and sexual. She would ‘speak’ in the voices of angels and underwent a mock marriage ceremony at the convent where only she could ‘see’ Jesus, her new husband.
>
>Some of her visions occurred in front of witnesses who noted she had gone into a trance-like state in which she appeared to be in an altered state of consciousness. However others were less convinced by Benedetta and feared she could be a fraud.
>
>She became a sensation with people flocking to see her and once showed stigmata on her hands –bleeding wounds similar to the ones the Bible says Christ suffered during the Crucifixion. At the age of 30, she was made abbess of the convent.
>
>The other nuns were so concerned by her increasingly disturbing claims that they reported her actions to the papal council in Rome and were ordered to confine Sister Benedetta to her room.
>
>A young novice nun, Sister Bartolomea Crivelli, was assigned to watch over her. However, the pair embarked on a lesbian affair, with Benedetta claiming she was possessed by a male demon and so it was not a sin.
>
>Benedetta was subject to two inquiries. The first found she was truly blessed, but the second discovered many inconsistencies in her stories, and was backed by testimony from other nuns.
>
>Nuns told how they saw Benedetta inflicting the apparent stigmata on herself, and testified that they had seen her eating meat and cheese, despite these foods apparently being banned by Christ in her visions.
>
>Another nun had seen her put her blood on a statue of Christ, which Benedetta then claimed began to bleed in honour of her sanctity.
>
>The most startling testimony came from Bartolomea, who detailed their sexual relationship.
>
>As the investigators noted: ‘This sister Benedetta, then, for two continuous years, at least three times a week, in the evening after disrobing and going to bed would wait for her companion to disrobe, and pretending to need her, would call.
>
‘When Bartolomea would come over, Benedetta would grab her by the arm and throw her by force on the bed. Embracing her, she would put her under herself and kissing her as if she was a man, she would speak words of love to her.
>
>’And she would stir on top of her so much that both of them corrupted themselves. And thus by force she held her sometimes one, sometimes two, and sometimes thee hours.
>
>’And Benedetta would tell her that neither she nor Benedetta were sinning because it was the Angel Splenditello and not she that did these things. And she spoke always with the voice which Splenditello always spoke through Benedetta.’
To be fair I fully think they released it today for the controversy could have easily released another day.
My personal opinion as a believing Catholic:
It’s not the lesbian nun thing that annoys me. It’s the use of the statue of the virgin Mary as a masturbating aid, as well as the use of religious figures in highly sexualized contexts that does annoy me. It’s release on Good Friday is targeted to increase its media prominence through religious opposition, but it is offensive to us regardless of the day. Good Friday merely adds to it.
I wouldn’t ban the film. I wouldn’t attend it obviously, but it’s up to others to make that decision themselves.
Catholicism. The original destroyers of free speech.
Cult throws yet another hissy fit. Fuck em.
Is it dubbed or subtitled?
“You can stick your virgin Mary up your hole Sister”
“Don’t mind if I do..”
Lol. Just… lol.
Fair enough, well done to the movie company for the release date, but I gotta say the QFT are the ones to have a go at on this for screening it today.
I’m not surprised at the film’s content or the fact that it has been released in the first place. It seems to be perfectly acceptable to demean Christianity at each and every available opportunity these days. I can imagine the outrage if the statue mentioned in the article was actually of Mohammed and the nuns were female driving instructors.
However, I am glad I was made aware of this movie, but I shall wait until after the weekend before watching it.
Oh great a new kink to feel ashamed of after fapping.
They don’t want you. They don’t want you on film, they don’t want you visible in the street, they don’t want you employed… and as a logical conclusion, they end up not wanting you alive, as recently shown.
Oh it’s a Paul Verhoeven movie? That’ll be interesting…
(Robocop and Showgirls director lol)
It must be a shite film if theyre pushing so hard to be controversial. There good be a decent film made about nuns who are lesbians maybe but they wouldn’t need to resort to the shock value of masturbating with a virgin mary statue or opening on good friday, if it was good enough on its own to attract viewers.
At least they’re advocating for censorship in a civilised fashion and not massacring the people involved in the movie. We all know that would be a legit concern if it involved a different religion.
​
It might be your Good Friday. But to non-believers, it’s just a regular Friday.
And to the catholics of Reddit, I ask this: for a faith so reverent of the Virgin Mary, with churches and institutions named after her, why is your church so regressive when it comes to women?
There are no women in the patriarchal hierarchy of the church, women are forbidden to be priests, abortion is vilified, catholic women are barred from speaking at catholic conferences.
So if Mary is all important to your faith, why all the backwardness?
Is it because, to quote Mary McAleese, the catholic church is ‘one of the last great bastions of misogyny’?
Oh yes, because the Catholic Church has been *so* civilised in its actions toward the people of Ireland. Tuam survivors, mother and baby home survivors, and industrial school survivors can attest to their definition of civilised behaviour.
Free marketing
Think the group’s real aim is to get the Irish internet to create like 10 million Father Ted memes
Ah Shure, I might wander in so…..
Lesbian nun film you say.
Is it a type of nudie thing father?
Thanks OP for reminding me to see the movie.
Fuck’em
Jaysus is Filthy Habits 12 out today? Some weekend this is gonna be
I’d never heard of it but I’m definitely watching it now just out of spite
Careful now
Down with this sort of thing
The passion of St. Tibulus 2: electric vibrator
This headline is hilarious
I did not know about this movie. I have no interest in going to the cinema. But slap me on the bum and call me Susan I’m off to Tesco for cheap Minstrels cause I’m going to this. This is for all the Sundays I missed my sleep-in, Mammy!
I have to wonder if this is not just clever marketing by the film maker itself, because how do the Church not realise they have the exact opposite effect that they go for
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CAREFUL NOW
Ignore them and they will go away.
“Movie distribution company relies on predictable outrage to market movie for them. Movie distribution company is not disappointed.
Actually, movie distribution company is overwhelmed by the success of their decision”
And they should, fuckin rude to open it on Easter. Fuckin coulda opened it any other day of the year.
But sure the nuns have loads of lesbians. And the priesthood has lots of gays.
“Alexa play Liveline
They think the release on good Friday is “calculated to insult Catholics everywhere”, lol cry harder
If it’s only released today, have any of their members seen it?
I always wonder about groups protesting things they haven’t seen or witnessed themselves. And yes, it’ll have the exact opposite impact they want it to have on the film.
I’d never heard of it, I’ll be checking it out for sure now.
Are they hot tho?
>The Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISCC) says that “Benedetta” being released in Ireland and the UK on Good Friday is “a calculated insult to Christians everywhere.”
About the ISCC:
>Another ultra-conservative Catholic network — Tradition, Family, Property (TFP) — whose US branch spent at least $100,000 in Europe since 2010 according to openDemocracy, and who run “chivalry camps”, also has a presence in Ireland.
>
>Here in Ireland, it goes by the name of the Irish Society for Christian Civilisation — TFP.
>
>It runs “rosary rallies” and summer camps here, for boys and their fathers, where stories of Catholic heroes are told, presenting “true role models” for the participants to follow.
>
>The organisation, which is also registered with the Irish charity regulator, said its aim “is to resist, in the realm of ideas, the atheistic, liberal, and socialist trends of our times and proudly affirm the positive values of Christian civilisation, through the dissemination of religious articles and Catholic literature, especially of the message of Fatima”.
>
>While no link has been found connecting ultraconservative groups to Irish political parties, ties have been shown with Ireland, and these groups are still a cause for concern at a European political level.
>
>([Special Report – Far right in Ireland: ‘Dark money’ and the price of democracy](https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30929727.html))
–
Anyways…
>[Raunchy lesbian nun thriller based on a true story that features a Virgin Mary SEX TOY – summary](https://archive.ph/xmkDe):
>
>Born in 1591, Benedetta Carlini grew up in a respectable middle-class Italian family who educated her – a rarity for the time – and paid particular attention to her religious upbringing.
>
>By the age of five, she knew the litany of the saints and other prayers by heart. At the age of six, Benedetta learned to read and even knew a little from Latin.
>
>One day, when Benedetta was still a young girl, a black dog tried to drag her away but was frightened off by her screams. But when her mother appeared, the dog had vanished. The family decided that it had in fact been the devil disguised as an animal.
>
>She also claimed to be able to communicate with a nightingale, a symbol of carnal love.
>
>Benedetta entered The Convent of the Mother of God in Pescia, Tuscany, at the age of nine.
>
>At the time in Renaissance Italy, middle-class families often ‘bought’ their daughters a place at a convent because it was a quarter of the cost of a marriage dowry and conferred respectability.
>
>Shortly after arriving at the convent, Benedetta was almost crushed by a statue of the Madonna while praying. She thought this was a miracle and showed that the statue wanted to kiss her. The young novice took this as a sign of the power of God.
>
>However her early years in the convent were otherwise unremarkable. It was only at the age of 23 that she first reported the supernatural visions.
>
>She reported ‘visions’ which came to her, including one in which Jesus asked to take her as his wife.
>
>Other visions were more graphic and sexual. She would ‘speak’ in the voices of angels and underwent a mock marriage ceremony at the convent where only she could ‘see’ Jesus, her new husband.
>
>Some of her visions occurred in front of witnesses who noted she had gone into a trance-like state in which she appeared to be in an altered state of consciousness. However others were less convinced by Benedetta and feared she could be a fraud.
>
>She became a sensation with people flocking to see her and once showed stigmata on her hands –bleeding wounds similar to the ones the Bible says Christ suffered during the Crucifixion. At the age of 30, she was made abbess of the convent.
>
>The other nuns were so concerned by her increasingly disturbing claims that they reported her actions to the papal council in Rome and were ordered to confine Sister Benedetta to her room.
>
>A young novice nun, Sister Bartolomea Crivelli, was assigned to watch over her. However, the pair embarked on a lesbian affair, with Benedetta claiming she was possessed by a male demon and so it was not a sin.
>
>Benedetta was subject to two inquiries. The first found she was truly blessed, but the second discovered many inconsistencies in her stories, and was backed by testimony from other nuns.
>
>Nuns told how they saw Benedetta inflicting the apparent stigmata on herself, and testified that they had seen her eating meat and cheese, despite these foods apparently being banned by Christ in her visions.
>
>Another nun had seen her put her blood on a statue of Christ, which Benedetta then claimed began to bleed in honour of her sanctity.
>
>The most startling testimony came from Bartolomea, who detailed their sexual relationship.
>
>As the investigators noted: ‘This sister Benedetta, then, for two continuous years, at least three times a week, in the evening after disrobing and going to bed would wait for her companion to disrobe, and pretending to need her, would call.
>
‘When Bartolomea would come over, Benedetta would grab her by the arm and throw her by force on the bed. Embracing her, she would put her under herself and kissing her as if she was a man, she would speak words of love to her.
>
>’And she would stir on top of her so much that both of them corrupted themselves. And thus by force she held her sometimes one, sometimes two, and sometimes thee hours.
>
>’And Benedetta would tell her that neither she nor Benedetta were sinning because it was the Angel Splenditello and not she that did these things. And she spoke always with the voice which Splenditello always spoke through Benedetta.’
–
And from the director:
>i News: [Paul Verhoeven on Benedetta: ‘Blasphemy? That’s stupid. You can’t change history’
– Interview](https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/paul-verhoeven-benedetta-interview-blasphemy-thats-stupid-you-cant-change-history-1576904)
>
>The director’s new film is his most controversial yet. He and its stars tell James Mottram why it’s actually a story of empowerment
To be fair I fully think they released it today for the controversy could have easily released another day.
My personal opinion as a believing Catholic:
It’s not the lesbian nun thing that annoys me. It’s the use of the statue of the virgin Mary as a masturbating aid, as well as the use of religious figures in highly sexualized contexts that does annoy me. It’s release on Good Friday is targeted to increase its media prominence through religious opposition, but it is offensive to us regardless of the day. Good Friday merely adds to it.
I wouldn’t ban the film. I wouldn’t attend it obviously, but it’s up to others to make that decision themselves.
Catholicism. The original destroyers of free speech.
Cult throws yet another hissy fit. Fuck em.
Is it dubbed or subtitled?
“You can stick your virgin Mary up your hole Sister”
“Don’t mind if I do..”
Lol. Just… lol.
Fair enough, well done to the movie company for the release date, but I gotta say the QFT are the ones to have a go at on this for screening it today.
I’m not surprised at the film’s content or the fact that it has been released in the first place. It seems to be perfectly acceptable to demean Christianity at each and every available opportunity these days. I can imagine the outrage if the statue mentioned in the article was actually of Mohammed and the nuns were female driving instructors.
However, I am glad I was made aware of this movie, but I shall wait until after the weekend before watching it.
Oh great a new kink to feel ashamed of after fapping.
They don’t want you. They don’t want you on film, they don’t want you visible in the street, they don’t want you employed… and as a logical conclusion, they end up not wanting you alive, as recently shown.
There even flying in from gdanzk to see it
Free marketing.
I love the fact that Kevin Smith ended up “protesting” Dogma. https://youtu.be/4-7dvf7EUwY
Life imitating art
Sure I might wander in
Oh it’s a Paul Verhoeven movie? That’ll be interesting…
(Robocop and Showgirls director lol)
It must be a shite film if theyre pushing so hard to be controversial. There good be a decent film made about nuns who are lesbians maybe but they wouldn’t need to resort to the shock value of masturbating with a virgin mary statue or opening on good friday, if it was good enough on its own to attract viewers.
At least they’re advocating for censorship in a civilised fashion and not massacring the people involved in the movie. We all know that would be a legit concern if it involved a different religion.
​
It might be your Good Friday. But to non-believers, it’s just a regular Friday.
And to the catholics of Reddit, I ask this: for a faith so reverent of the Virgin Mary, with churches and institutions named after her, why is your church so regressive when it comes to women?
There are no women in the patriarchal hierarchy of the church, women are forbidden to be priests, abortion is vilified, catholic women are barred from speaking at catholic conferences.
So if Mary is all important to your faith, why all the backwardness?
Is it because, to quote Mary McAleese, the catholic church is ‘one of the last great bastions of misogyny’?
[Here](https://www.isfcc.org/petition/benedetta/) is the actual petition – I’m going to sign
“Irish Society for Christian Civilisation”
Oh yes, because the Catholic Church has been *so* civilised in its actions toward the people of Ireland. Tuam survivors, mother and baby home survivors, and industrial school survivors can attest to their definition of civilised behaviour.
Free marketing
Think the group’s real aim is to get the Irish internet to create like 10 million Father Ted memes
Ah Shure, I might wander in so…..
Lesbian nun film you say.
Is it a type of nudie thing father?
Thanks OP for reminding me to see the movie.
Fuck’em
Jaysus is Filthy Habits 12 out today? Some weekend this is gonna be
I’d never heard of it but I’m definitely watching it now just out of spite
Careful now
Down with this sort of thing
The passion of St. Tibulus 2: electric vibrator
This headline is hilarious
I did not know about this movie. I have no interest in going to the cinema. But slap me on the bum and call me Susan I’m off to Tesco for cheap Minstrels cause I’m going to this. This is for all the Sundays I missed my sleep-in, Mammy!
I have to wonder if this is not just clever marketing by the film maker itself, because how do the Church not realise they have the exact opposite effect that they go for