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An ‘Expression of the Catholic Mind’: Cathedrals Come to Cinema in the US

Word on Fire is continuing its mission to evangelize, but this September, that evangelization will take place on the silver screen.

The Catholic media apostolate has a film set to release in theaters on Sept. 20 called “Heaven in Stone and Glass.” The film takes viewers through Europe’s Gothic cathedrals alongside Bishop Robert Barron, who provides meditations on how the Catholic Church’s teachings can be found in the art and architecture of medieval cathedrals. Tickets went on sale July 31.

“Materialism, atheism, ideological naturalism have all crushed the human spirit,” Barron told the Daily Signal. “As St. Augustine said long ago, we are all wired for God, our hearts are restless until they rest in God. The Cathedrals address that longing in a very powerful way.”

“I love monasteries, statues, all forms of Catholic art, but the Cathedrals seem to be the richest and [most] complex expression of the Catholic mind in artistic form,” Barron said.

The film opens with clips of the 800-year-old cathedral of Notre Dame engulfed in flames when its wooden spire burned down in 2019. Barron walks through the cathedrals of Notre Dame, Amiens, Chartres, Reims,........

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