Imprimatur for The Blues Brothers
Reuters reports:
On the 30th anniversary of the film’s release, “L’Osservatore Romano,” the Vatican’s official newspaper, called the film a “Catholic classic” and said it should be recommended viewing for Catholics everywhere.
As my daughter pointed out to me, I could have been showing my fifth-graders The Blues Brothers instead of The Ten Commandments all those years.
Better sound track, too.
Reuters shows a very limited understanding of Catholicism, though, when it says:
But aside from a brief appearance from Kathleen Freeman as a wrist-slapping nun referred to as “The Penguin” and the brothers’ periodic claim that they were on a mission from God, spirituality does not play a significant role in the film.
