A Catholic activist group has launched a petition condemning a cinema in Belfast for showing Benedetta, a film about lesbian nuns, on Good Friday.
Paul Verhoeven’s film is based on the real-life 17th-century Italian abbes, Benedetta Carlini, who was stripped of her authority after her relationship with another nun was discovered. She was also accused of being a fake stigmatist – someone who miraculously receives the bodily wounds of Christ’s crucifixion.
