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The film looks... “Every religious person has to take responsibility for the way in which their tradition promotes intolerance and hatred." These are the words of author, former priest and disenchanted Catholic James Carroll, and they drive home one of the central themes of Oren Jacoby’s documentary Constantine’s Sword .
Constantine’s Sword is the story of former Catholic priest James Carroll as he confronts his past and uncovers the roots of religiously inspired violence and war. His search reveals a growing scandal involving Evangelical Christian infiltration of the U.S. military and the terrible consequences of its influence on American foreign policy.
And so one would think, given its political views, Constantine’s Sword might invoke John Paul II and Benedict as natural allies, since they both warned against the consequences of invading Iraq.[[<106>For Fr. Pawlikowski’s negative assessment of Mel Gibson’s film, see his comments in, “The Passion—a Forthcoming Movie,” by Lynn Ballas, Compassion (Newsletter of the Passionists ...
Constantine’s sword refers to the Christian cross, which only became a symbol of the Christian faith after Constantine used it to exert his faith over the Roman people. Focusing part of the film on an Air force base in Colorado, filmmaker Oren Jacoby illustrates the way the Evangelical church attempts to implement their ideologies into the US armed forces.
18 apr 2008 · Oren Jacoby’s Constantine’s Sword is an intriguing documentary exploring the “dark side of Christianity” through the spiritual and physical journey of James Carroll, a journalist, award-winning author (his book, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History, forms the basis of the film) and former Roman-Catholic priest, whose father was a three-star Air Force General ...
From Gospel accounts of the death of Jesus on the cross, to Constantine’s transformation of the cross into a sword, to the rise of blood libels, scapegoating, and modern anti-Semitism, Carroll reconstructs the dramatic story of the Church’s conflict not only with Jews but with itself. Yet in tracing the arc of this narrative, he implicitly ...
