Keeping the flame alive: BBC documentary ‘First Communion’ is both tender&hearted, insightful and cynical

Watching the BBC’s new documentary “First Communion”, I was struck by the image of a child’s Star Wars stormtrooper toy adorned with a rosary: was it a sly dig, I wondered, casting the Church as a crumbling institution governed by dark, druidical megalomaniacs? Mercifully, the show is tender-hearted enough elsewhere. It follows the lives of The post Keeping the flame alive: BBC documentary ‘First Communion’ is both tender-hearted, insightful and cynical first appeared on Catholic Herald. The post Keeping the flame alive: BBC documentary ‘First Communion’ is both tender-hearted, insightful and cynical appeared first on Catholic Herald.