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ARCHBISHOP FOLEY: CINEMA AT THE SERVICE OF MANKIND

VATICAN CITY, NOV 23, 2005 (VIS) - Yesterday evening, Archbishop John P. Foley,
president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, inaugurated the
9th International Congress on Cinema and Spirituality, which is being held in
Rome's "Roma Tre" University on November 22 and 23.

Referring to the theme of this year's gathering, "the temptation to believe,"
the archbishop said that submitting to such 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, which can never be completely overcome, it
means undertaking an act of courage, a leap of quality at the existential
level."

The president of the Pontifical Council recalled how in various films "the
temptation to believe ... has given rise to a dialogue between human beings and
God, a dialogue capable of stimulating spectators to profound reflection,
bringing them face to face with their own intimate identity and with their
fellow men."

"The great film directors," the archbishop continued, "know how to tell the
stories of men and women of all times and cultures to the men and women of
today, echoing personal experiences of great intensity. And it is precisely
this valuable potential of cinema that leads me to hope that it will continue
to place itself at the service of mankind, guiding man to a spiritual
understanding of his own essence."

Archbishop Foley highlighted the fact that "cinema has traversed more than one
hundred years," yet it "continues to amaze us, to make us think and question
ourselves through the masterful art of those artists who have chosen to share
their spiritual experience with the spectator."
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