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Article: Jeffrey Tucker notes that watching Angels and Demons wasn't an altogether unpleasant experience.(While We're At It)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Jeffrey Tucker notes that watching Angels and Demons wasn't an altogether unpleasant experience. The movie had a better sense of liturgical music than most Catholic parishes:
Actually, the real reason I like to see any film
in which the Catholic Church is featured prominently
concerns the music. Let's just say that "On
Eagles' Wings" is never featured at a Catholic
funeral on film. And it pleases me to see confirmed
that even the most secular parts of the
industrial media sector understand what sacred
music probably sounds like.
Sure enough, this movie opens with the
Introit of the Requiem Mass playing at the funeral.
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