Vatican City, Nov 22, 2005 / 22:00 pm
As he inaugurated the 9th International Congress on Cinema and Spirituality last evening, Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, expressed his hope that the spiritual potential of film could place itself at the service of mankind.
The Congress is being held in Rome's "Roma Tre" University from November 22nd to the 23rd.
Speaking about this year's theme, "the temptation to believe," Archbishop Foley said that submitting to this temptation "means starting along the road of the difficult search for Truth in a world such as today's which swings from religious indifference to religious extremism…”
“It means responding to God despite human incredulity,” he continued, “which can never be completely overcome, it means undertaking an act of courage, a leap of quality at the existential level."