« Hollywood », catéchisme parallèle
« Hollywood », catéchisme parallèle Résumé (Anglais, style latiniste) : In the grand amphitheater of American culture, Hollywood has long served as a pontifex maximus of secular belief. From early sound films to today’s streaming epics, the movies have disseminated an implicit theology – often subtler and more persuasive than any pulpit homily. Biblical blockbusters, saintly biopics and feel-good conversions (from The Passion of the Christ to The Chosen ) have offered Americans an informal catechism in technicolor researchgate.net decentfilms.com . Yet the same cinema has also sounded the shofar of critique, uncovering clergy scandals and ecclesial hypocrisy in films like Spotlight , Doubt or El Club . In uno lamentis orbis, Hollywood thus preaches two gospels at once: an evangelium laetitiae of faith and redemption, and an evangelium ictus of doubt and reform. The upshot is a sacred paradox: screens have replaced some pews, but the real Verbum – in scroll or heart – remai...