Following its subject from one speaking tour to the other, from churches and homes to the garden he maintains atop the Jesuit residence in Manhattan, the portrait rendered is of a man so at peace with himself he calms the souls of others.Ĭhristine Leinonen, whose son was murdered in the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, Fla.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I have known James Martin for a number of years, and was grateful to “Building a Bridge” for allowing me to actually spend some time with him.
But of course, they often are totally shocked. person shouldn’t be surprised to hear they're welcome in the church,” Martin says. And God’s love is not just about who you love. A onetime “corporate tool” and late-inning Jesuit, Martin has attracted the kind of venom among self-proclaimed “true Catholics”-those who seem to believe a more unforgiving and wrathful church would bring people back into it-that only proves the point of his ministry: God is about love. The directors Evan Mascagni and Shannon Post have taken a tip from Martin-and Jesus-in their briskly paced, somewhat calculating but very loving film, which does not just delve into the issue of gays in the church but into the New York-based priest who has made himself, however reluctantly, the issue’s poster boy. But it could possibly spark a few conversions. In the James Martin story, the man was going down into the social-media hellmouth to face off against self-righteous indignation and a bottomless well of vitriol. “When Jesus is asked ‘Who is my neighbor?’” the Jesuit priest tells one congregation in the film, “He doesn’t say ‘Here are the 10 points that make a neighbor.’ He says, ‘A man was going down to Jericho …’” That book put him at the epicenter of the conversation about L.G.B.T.Q.
“Nothing converts like stories,” says James Martin, S.J., during “Building a Bridge,” a kind of documentary offspring of Martin’s 2017 book of the same name.
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