Sister Rose's Passion

"Sister Rose's Passion" is a very small movie on a very big subject. I'll find out, shorty, if it wins the Academy Award for best short documentary it has been nominated for. The 38-minute documentary explores the story of Sister Rose Thering, a Dominican nun who has devoted her life to battling anti-Semitism within the Catholic Church. In addition to teaching and lecturing for over fifty years, her writings contributed to the drafting of "Nostra Aetate," the revolutionary document that changed the Church's position on Jews from negative to positive.

Once we acknowledge this whole history of discrimination against Protestants, Jews and Muslims then we can move forward together," she says. "But even then tolerance is not enough. We must not just tolerate but understand and eventually love people of other faiths. We are all children of god, striving to understand him in our own ways.

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