Movie
1982
Monsignor is a 1982 American drama film directed by Frank Perry about Roman Catholic priest John Flaherty's rise through the ranks of the Vatican, during and after World War II. Along the way, he involves the Vatican in the black marketeering operations of a Mafia don, and has an affair with Clara, a woman in the postulant stage of becoming a nun. He eventually repents and returns to his faith, attempting to make…
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Hollywood traditionally expressed irreverence towards many things, but not towards Catholic Church. Those two institutions had strong bond which had started in 1930s with infamous Hays Code, censorship system for major studios devised by Catholic priests and activists. Even when the Code was abandoned and Hollywood films allowed themselves to show Protestant and other clergymen as hypocrites and perverts, treatment…More
