Depicts priests or religious as multi-dimensional people worth taking seriously. [Says critic Steven D. Greydanus: 'Philip Gröning’s Into Great Silence is pure cinema at its purest and most exalted. Its achievement virtually defies commentary.' Google for his full review.]

Gives 'our side' of historical events that are typically slanted to fit some Black Legend or Whig Authorized Version.

Shows practicing, sacramental Catholics who are neither unlettered peasants nor Mafia kingpins, but likeable, smart Americans.

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* Ignore the bonus materials with their vacuous, fashionable commentary. As typical moderns, the commentators have very little understanding of this work.

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* On the whole, wonderful. It has a few annoying aspects - such as its use of the insipid Good News translation and the incessant tagging along of Mary Magdalene, but its strengths more than make up for these distortions. For example, the presentation of Ch. 6 makes it quite clear that the Protestant take on the Eucharist is false.