Martin Scorsese Meets Pope as Film on Jesuits Screens in Rome

Pope Francis on Wednesday met Martin Scorsese after a special screening in Rome of the Oscar-winning director's new film "Silence," about Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan. For the-74-year-old Scorsese, who spent a year in a "minor seminary", a high school for boys considering the priesthood, the meeting came almost thirty years his film "The Last Temptation of Christ" outraged many conservative Christians. The encounter held significance too...

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