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Alice, Sweet Alice (1976) After a young girl is murdered at church on the day of her first communion, suspicion falls on her creepy 12-year-old sister Alice. Could the terrible tween be the one who's been dressing up in a yellow rain coat, donning a disturbing mask, and knifing everyone with a bladed crucifix? Blatantly apes the visual style of Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, but throws in a dash of good ol' American sleaze and a heaping dose of anti-Catholicism. Not really a shock as the film's director, whose previous movie was a porno, had been formally excommunicated a few years earlier and might be carrying a grudge.
TIL: Excommunication can be imposed through canonical process by a Church authority or occur automatically when someone commits an act specifically identified in Canon Law as deserving of the penalty. For instance, if a priest violates the seal of confession, he's out, no formal process needed. What most people don't get is that excommunication is not a punishment like a court's sentence, but rather something meant to awaken an individual’s conscience and bring them to repentance.
I HAVE SOME NOTES: More dippy doodles on my daily Scripture readings.
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