Hail Mary (film) psychanalyse." "Hail Mary"'s religious themes and scenes of full frontal nudity offended some Christians. Pope John Paul II criticized the film saying that it "deeply wounds the religious sentiments of believers." Protesters showed up at some theaters on opening night. The film had only 353,877 admissions in French movie theaters. It was banned in Argentina and Brazil. "Hail Mary" received mixed reviews, including one in the "New York Times" that characterized the film as "not especially provocative or entertaining", but also called it "an utterly serious attempt to examine the nature of relations between women and men and the possibility
Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana Catholic Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana The Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mary Most Holy in Astana () is a Latin archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Kazakhstan. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Marian Cathedral of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in the Kazakh national capital Astana. The founding and only Apostolic administrator Tomasz Peta was appointed the first Archbishop of Mary Most Holy in Astana by John Paul II on May 17, 1999. Pope John Paul II erected it as the Apostolic Administration of Astana on July 7, 1999, on territory split off from the then