{"id":333,"date":"2017-01-13T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=333"},"modified":"2017-01-13T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T15:47:18","slug":"silence-the-highly-anticipated-film-on-jesuits-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2017\/01\/13\/silence-the-highly-anticipated-film-on-jesuits-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Silence,’ the highly anticipated film on Jesuits, opens today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"silence\"The Jesuits take center stage this weekend as Martin Scorcese’s long-awaited “Silence” opens in wide release around the country.<\/p>\n

The film is an adaptation of a 1969 novel of the same name by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo. It\u00a0tells the story of\u00a0a 17th-Century\u00a0Jesuit who travels to Japan\u2014where Christianity is outlawed\u2014to find his mentor, a Jesuit who has disappeared.<\/p>\n

The movie is getting strong reviews and lots of attention from Jesuits around the world. Late last year\u00a0300 Jesuits were treated to a private showing\u00a0in Rome followed by a question and answer session with the legendary director.<\/p>\n

A bit of local trivia: The film’s executive producer is Matthew Malek who hails from metro Detroit and is a graduate of University of Detroit Jesuit High School, just down the road from University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols Campus.<\/p>\n

America<\/em>, the national Jesuit magazine, has collected its coverage of “Silence” here<\/a>. It includes interviews with Scorcese, a review, news stories and even the magazine’s 1969 review of the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jesuits take center stage this weekend as Martin Scorcese’s long-awaited “Silence” opens in wide release around the country. The film is an adaptation of a 1969 novel of the same name by Japanese writer Shusaku Endo. It\u00a0tells the story of\u00a0a 17th-Century\u00a0Jesuit who travels to Japan\u2014where Christianity is outlawed\u2014to find …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-5n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}