French court overturns mayor’s cancellation of Sacred Heart film screening

A French mayor’s ban of a Sacred Heart of Jesus film showing has been condemned by a court as “illegal” and ordered remedied by a rescheduling of the film.

Marseille mayor Benoît Payan hastened to cancel the screening of the film Sacred Heart: His Reign Will Have No End at the city-owned Château de la Buzine just an hour before it was to be shown, according to The European Conservative. The city reportedly argued that airing a religious film in a state venue was “an attack on secularism” and violated France’s law separating church and state. ---More...

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