Paul, an international convent often referred to as "Media Nuns" due to their frequent appearances across social media, told Insider that she would never "waste her time" watching Verhoeven's film. Sister Helena Burns, who is a member of the Daughters of St. Brown's 1986 book "Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy" - and tells the story of the forbidden sexual relationship between two nuns in a 17th-century convent in Northern Italy.
Much of the anger surrounding the film has been fueled by its central plot - which is based on writer Judith C. Various organizations such as the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property have condemned the film as "blasphemous" and "pornographic filth." Members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property - an organization of lay Catholic Americans - have even turned out in small groups outside of early screenings of the film with banners and placards. When the film opened in the United States, however, it was met with protest.
It often indicates a user profile.ĭutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven's latest film "Benedetta" debuted to a five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival in July. The story of the relationship between the two nuns and of Benedetta's fall from an abbess to an outcast is revealed in surprisingly candid archival documents and retold here with a fine sense of drama.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. During the course of an investigation, church authorities not only found that she had faked her visions and stigmata, but uncovered evidence of a lesbian affair with another nun, Bartolomeo. Benedetta was elected abbess due largely to these visions, but later aroused suspicions by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with Christ. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the earliest documentation of lesbianism in modern Western history.īorn of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at the age of nine. Brown was an event of major historical importance. The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C.
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