God's Daughters(2014)
God's Daughters documentary presents an intimate portrait of two ordained Roman Catholic women priests, and introduces a new candidate, part of a movement of active ordained women who ask to be formally recognized by the Vatican and to be part of the institutional Roman Catholic Church, which excommunicate them automatically as well as the persons conferring or trying to confer an ordination. Luc Novovitch, the filmmaker, was granted complete access to film their daily lives and duties, resulting in a film presenting a human and unvarnished vision of the lives and struggles of these women who fight to be accepted as priests by the Vatican. Through their movement, they promote their vision and goal of establishing a renewed and an all-inclusive Roman Catholic Church.
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God's Daughters documentary presents an intimate portrait of two ordained Roman Catholic women priests, and introduces a new candidate, part of a movement of active ordained women who ask to be formally recognized by the Vatican and to be part of the institutional Roman Catholic Church, which excommunicate them automatically as well as the persons conferring or trying to confer an ordination. Luc Novovitch, the filmmaker, was granted complete access to film their daily lives and duties, resulting in a film presenting a human and unvarnished vision of the lives and struggles of these women who fight to be accepted as priests by the Vatican. Through their movement, they promote their vision and goal of establishing a renewed and an all-inclusive Roman Catholic Church.
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