Examine The Issues

Manifesto of Faith: The Movie is especially relevant now due to the confusion that has infiltrated our culture and the Catholic Church. Below is an index of film segments organized by some of the major issues facing the Church today.

Abuse Crisis

The sexual abuse crisis is one of the greatest scandals in the history of the Catholic Church. Wicked clerics have violated the trust of the laity to such a degree ...

Celibacy

The tradition in the Western Church has been for priests and bishops to take vows of celibacy, a rule that has been firmly in place since the early Middle Ages ...

Communion

The Holy Eucharist is the “source and summit” of our Catholic faith. In no other sacrament do we receive the very body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. In ...

Confession

Confession is the means by which God forgives sins after baptism. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states “Those who approach the sacrament of Penance obtain pardon from God’s mercy ...

Divinity of Jesus Christ

The Catholic Church teaches that Jesus Christ is both True God and True Man (CCC ). This belief establishes the underpinnings of our Catholic faith. During the first week of ...

Evangelization

Cleric and lay leaders have been critical that the Amazon Synod has a hidden agenda as its objective instead of the evangelization of the Amazonian people. Just before he ascended ...

Four Last Things

The Catholic Church teaches that the four last things in life are death, judgement, heaven and hell (CCC 1020-1050). At the moment of death, each human person is judged by God ...

Heresy

The Catholic Church teaches that heresy is “the obstinate post-baptismal denial of some truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith, or it is likewise an obstinate doubt ...

Idolatry

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly ...

Moral Law

The Catholic Church teaches that “the moral law is the work of divine Wisdom. Its biblical meaning can be defined as fatherly instruction, God’s pedagogy. It prescribes for man the ...

Ordination of Women

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: Only a baptized man validly receives sacred ordination. The Lord Jesus chose men to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the ...

The Great Apostasy

Our Lord Jesus Christ warned us that before His Second Coming, there would be a falling away from the Faith enabled by a great deception, a deception so convincing that ...

CITY OF LIGHT presents an ARCADIA FILMS LTD. production MANIFESTO OF FAITH narrator RICHARD PAYNE original text written by GERHARD CARDINAL MÜLLER executive producers JEFF DAVIS AND GUY NAPIER visual effects ALLEN MORIN music by EXTREME MUSIC tridentine mass cinematography ALEXANDER CHOONG producers STEPHEN AND RICHARD PAYNE director and editor STEPHEN PAYNE

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