Portrayals of God in popular media was Irvine Welsh's "The Granton Star Cause", which portrayed God as drunken and abusive. Ironically, the campaign backfired, only serving the advertise the film more widely. The role of God is a difficult one to play, and also a difficult one to cast. The casting of Alanis Morissette as God in "Dogma" was influenced by the singer's own public dialogue with her faith, as expressed in her songs. The casting of African American Morgan Freeman as God in "Bruce Almighty" took the movie stereotype of a "black angel" to a new level. On the subject of playing the role, Ella
Dogma in the Catholic Church of the apostles of Christ, whose fullness the Church preserves with its tradition. Dogma is considered to be both divine and Catholic faith: divine because of its believed origin, and Catholic because of belief in the infallible teaching binding for all. At the turn of the 20th century, a group of theologians called modernists stated that dogmas did not come from God but are historical manifestations at a given time. In the encyclical "Pascendi dominici gregis", Pope Pius X condemned this teaching as heresy in 1907. The Catholic position is that the content of a dogma has a divine origin.