‘Trinity’s Triumph’ film, written by New Jersey priest, humanizes Catholic clergy

[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nn(RNS) — On a spring day in the mid-aughts, the Rev. Stephen Fichter was grabbing a slice of pizza from a shop in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, when a boy from Fichter’s church pointed to him and said, “I didn’t know he could eat pizza!”Almost two decades later, Fichter, pastor of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Wyckoff, New Jersey, wants people to know that not only do priests enjoy gastronomic delights, they’re also fully human.
“There’s a sense of priests being a separate entity,” said Fichter, who told Religion News Service that viewing priests purely as spiritual figureheads can, as the Catholic abuse crisis indicates, have dire consequences. And while reductive narratives in film and media depict priests as perfect heroes or evil villains, he said, truth is more complicated.
“I wanted to write a film that would strike a balance,” said Fichter, who began developing the idea for the movie “Trinity’s Triumph” in 1998.
Starring Emmy winner Joe Morton (“Scandal”) and Emmy-nominated actor Young Mazino (“Beef”), “Trinity’s Triumph” is now available to stream on Amazon Prime and other platforms. The first feature-length film written by a priest, according to Fichter, it follows three Catholic seminarians who tell corny jokes, sin occasionally and grap …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]