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• Martin Scorsese’s ‘Silence’: Christianity’s Crucible in Japan

  January 09, 2017

  By Ken Marotte In the coming weeks, a film speculated by many to be Martin Scorsese’s most personal and poignant project to date will release throughout the United States. Silence, based on a 1966 novel of the same name by Japanese Catholic novelist Shusaku Endo, follows two Portuguese Jesuit priests as they journey to 17th century […]

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