podcast

Abraham

A scene from the TV film 'Abraham'

The Church meets pop culture for this podcast series of Advent reflections. Fr Peter Malone MSC relates 28 movies to the Gospel.

Following an Advent Calendar theme, one MP3 review is uploaded for each day of Advent.

Gospel for 17 December

Abraham (1994) TV

"When you look at a film like  Abraham , it gives you the opportunity to go back into the stories of Genesis and think abut the spiritual role of Abraham - the role of Abraham not only the patriarch but our father in Faith."

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Fr Peter's review

Abraham - Review 41.00 kB

Background on the film can be found at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) .

Contributor

Fr Peter Malone is a former president of SIGNIS - the World Catholic Association for Communication. He's a highly experienced film critic and author who has travelled the world watching, writing on and talking about movies. Since 1968, he's written reviews for a number of Catholic magazines and periodicals. He's also written many books on cinema including Films and Values, Movie Christs and Antichrists, Cinema Down Under and the excellent Lights, Camera, Faith (Movie Lectionary) series.

MP3

Abraham (1994)

Fr Peter Malone MSC reviews 'Abraham' and relates the TV film to Advent.   abraham.mp3 3.75 MB