As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of thought-provoking movies to the day's Gospel reading.

Tuesday of Holy Week - Breach (2007)

"The religious theme is shown in action. It contributes to those insightful films which show the extraordinary inconsistencies in the behaviour of respectable Catholics."

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of films to the day's Gospel reading. You will find an audio review for the Sundays of Lent and Easter. We also have a podcast for each day of Holy Week and other key dates.

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of thought-provoking movies to the day's Gospel reading.

Holy Thursday - Troubled Water (2008)

"Troubled Water takes its title from Paul Simon's song which is played twice during a crucial scene and its repetition. The troubled waters are evident. However, the full title of the song is Bridge over Troubled Waters and exploring that theme opens up the drama and the spiritual dimensions of the drama."

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of thought-provoking movies to the day's Gospel reading.

Good Friday - Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

"The screenplay and direction, with a blend of 'realism' and 'naturalism', meant that any audience would not feel that the material was too much 'above them'. They could identify with the events and with Jesus himself. In this way, Zeffirelli's Jesus is personalised far more persuasively than Jesus in other films. The audience appreciates Jesus as a human being with feelings and warmth as well as intelligence and strong will."

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of thought-provoking movies to the day's Gospel reading.

Easter Saturday - Regeneration (1997)

"During World War I, Dr William Rivers is in charge of a psychiatric unit in Scotland. A sympathetic man, he gives himself completely (even to identifying with patients in dreams) to the recovery of shell-shocked and traumatised soldiers. However, the tone of the movie is also one of hope for healing, especially with its title, 'Regeneration'."

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of thought-provoking movies to the day's Gospel reading.

Easter Sunday - Fearless (1993)

"This is not mainstream Hollywood entertainment. It tries to imagine and explore some of the realities of suffering, pain and death in the contemporary world, issues of religious faith and the absence of a sense of God while puzzling over the arbitrariness of accidents and wondering about God's role in them."

As we travel on a journey of faith through Christ's passion, death and resurrection, this podcast series - 'Lent and Easter at the Movies' - takes us to the cinema as Fr Peter Malone MSC relates a series of films to the day's Gospel reading.

Fourth Sunday of Lent - Artificial Intelligence (2001)

"In a sense the scientist creates this child, sends him into the world - but he has to learn love... I think the film does open up aspects of the Gospel - it's a difficult one in so far as it's a conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus - but it's the famous one with that text 'God so loved the world that He gave his only son'."

Fr Bruno Ciceri, who is International Director of the Catholic Church's organisation supporting seafarers. Apostleship of the Sea, spoke to delegates at the 2018 Santa Marta Group conference in Rome.

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Casina Pia, Vatican. 8 February 2018.

Deputy Director of the Polish National Police, Irmina Gołębiewska, talks about the challenge to overcome trafficking and modern slavery in Poland.

Polish victims are trafficked primarily to the UK, Holland and Belgium.

Law enforcement takes a collaborative approach with the Church. Police work to raise awareness of these crimes with the most vulnerable - young people, students and the unemployed.

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Casina Pia, Vatican. 8 February 2018.

Archbishop of Cape Town Stephen Brislin talks about the realities of human trafficking and modern slavery in South Africa. Archbishop Brislin was attending the first day of the Santa Marta Group conference at the Vatican. Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Casina Pia, Vatican. 8 February 2018.