The history of Christianity is full of divinely endowed priests abusing their “God-given” powers. In this episode Mary and Bethany welcome the pod’s very first guest Robert Kolodny, cinematographer of the recently released documentary “Procession,” to discuss the making of the film and the Church in bad faith. *This episode includes mentions of sexual assault.

Bonus: Robert’s carefully crafted cinema syllabus relevant to this week’s topic is featured below.

• Corpus Christi (2019, Jan Komasa)

• Teorema (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

• Little Sister (2016, Zach Clark)

• Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)

• Dark Habits (1983, Pedro Almodóvar)

• First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader)

• Ida (2013, Paweł Pawlikowski)

• Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

• The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)

• Procession (2021, Robert Greene)