{"id":2098,"date":"2012-03-19T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2012-03-19T10:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T14:20:59","slug":"how-pope-benedict-xvis-mexican-tour-to-recall-historic-faith-struggle-portrayed-in-new-film-gmc-to-air-jesus-on-palm-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/03\/how-pope-benedict-xvis-mexican-tour-to-recall-historic-faith-struggle-portrayed-in-new-film-gmc-to-air-jesus-on-palm-sunday.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s Mexican tour to recall historic faith struggle portrayed in new film  + GMC to air &#8220;Jesus&#8221; on Palm Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Papal plug?<\/strong> Not officially, but Pope Benedict XVI will sorta help in the publicity promoting the new film <em>For Greater Glory\u00a0 <\/em>during his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba. On March 25th, the pontiff will will celebrate mass for\u00a0 over 400,000 on the faithful in the shadow of Mexico&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cerro_del_Cubilete\"><em>Cristo Rey<\/em><\/a> (<em>Christ the King<\/em>) statue which was erected as a commemoration of the struggle of the martyrs of the Cristero War whose story is told in the movie which\u00a0<strong><em><\/em><\/strong>opens in theaters across the U.S. on June 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Cristero War (1926-29) \u2013 was a grassroots rebellion against the administration of Plucarto Elias Calles, who sought to restrict \u2013 if not eliminate \u2013 Catholicism from the country.\u00a0 On Nov. 20, 2005 \u2013 Christ the King Sunday \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/features\/index.cfm?recnum=40860\">more than a dozen Cristero martyrs were beatified<\/a> \u2013 including Blessed Jos\u00e9 Sanchez del Rio, who died at age 14.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"&quot;Cristiada&quot; (&quot;For Greater Glory&quot;)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EhE7AkTW-lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2. <strong><em>Jesus<\/em> miniseries to air on GMC.<\/strong> The faith-themed cable network will air the epic-but-intimate drama about the life of Christ (which first aired on CBS in 2000) on Palm Sunday, April 1 at 7 p.m. ET with encore broadcasts on Good Friday, April 6 at 9 p.m. ET and on Easter Sunday at 1 p.m. ET. The event stars Jeremy Sisto (<em>Law &amp; Order, Six Feet Under,<\/em> <em>Suburgatory)<\/em> in the title role. The all-star cast also includes Jacqueline Bisset (<em>Rizzoli &amp; Isles, Joan of Arc<\/em>) as Mary, Debra Messing (<em>Smash, Will &amp; Grace<\/em>) as Mary Magdalene and Gary Oldman (<em>Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Book of Eli, The Dark Knight<\/em>, <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em>) as Pontius Pilate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Jesus Forgives\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kvFXb_GXSMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. Papal plug? Not officially, but Pope Benedict XVI will sorta help in the publicity promoting the new film For Greater Glory\u00a0 during his upcoming trip to Mexico and Cuba. On March 25th, the pontiff will will celebrate mass for\u00a0 over 400,000 on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,15,24,27,31,1,1015],"tags":[35,2596,2594,2595,2591,2604,2606,2598,2609,2602,2599,2597,2603,2610,2590,2593,2611,9045,2600,2601,2607,2592,2608,2605],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-church","category-christianity","category-history","category-movies","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-television","category-uncategorized","category-vatican","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-blessed-jose-sanchez-del-rio","tag-christ-the-king-sunday","tag-cristero-martyrs","tag-cristo-rey-christ-the-king","tag-debra-messing-smash","tag-gary-oldman-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy","tag-gmc","tag-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows","tag-jacqueline-bisset-rizzoli-isles","tag-jeremy-sisto-law-order","tag-jesus-miniseries","tag-joan-of-arc","tag-mary-magdalene","tag-new-film-for-greater-glory","tag-plucarto-elias-calles","tag-pontius-pilate","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-six-feet-under","tag-suburgatory","tag-the-book-of-eli","tag-the-cristero-war","tag-the-dark-knight","tag-will-grace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Benedict XVI&#039;s Mexican tour to recall historic faith struggle portrayed in new film + GMC to air &quot;Jesus&quot; on Palm Sunday<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/03\/how-pope-benedict-xvis-mexican-tour-to-recall-historic-faith-struggle-portrayed-in-new-film-gmc-to-air-jesus-on-palm-sunday.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Benedict XVI&#039;s Mexican tour to recall historic faith struggle portrayed in new film + GMC to air &quot;Jesus&quot; on Palm Sunday\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here are today&#8217;s dispatches from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 1. 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