Pope Leo XIV addressing the World of Cinema and Hollywood’s elite, critiques modern cinema: “Perhaps we need to listen again to the words of a pioneer of the seventh art, the great David W. Griffith. He said: "What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees." How can we not think, listening to Griffith speak of the wind in the trees, of that passage from the Gospel of John: "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes: so is everyone who is born of the Spirit". Dear ancient and new masters, make cinema an art of the Spirit.”
“The Church's function is not to adapt Christianity to the world, nor even to adapt the world to Christianity; her function is to maintain a counterworld within the world.”
- Nicolas Gomez Davila
y nace de una madre, como nacen
los linajes que en polvo se deshacen,
y le será entregado el orbe entero,
aire, agua, pan, mañanas, piedra y lirio,
pero después la sangre del martirio,
el escarnio, los clavos y el madero.
La Milonga de Manuel Flores. Letra de Borges y música de Troilo. Grela y de Lío a la guitarra. Parte de Invasión (1969), dirigida por Hugo Santiago. Patrimonio nacional y mundial.