By: Robin Murray-o'hair
Re: Movie Release Date Moved

FILM RELEASE DATE CHANGED

On Friday, March 24, Miramax Films announced
that it would change the release date in
response to protests by Catholics. The film,
titled simply  Priest,  deals with
homosexuality and adultery by Roman Catholic
priests. It was scheduled to be released
nationally on Friday, April 14.

What's the big deal? Well, it seems that April
14 is Good Friday, a Christian religious
holiday, and the Catholic League, an
organization of 200,000 members, doesn t like
the coincidence one bit. In fact, the league
promised a boycott of Walt Disney Co., which
owns Miramax.

The Catholic League still isn't satisfied,
however, as it wants Disney to disown the film
entirely. In the meantime, an outfit called
Morality in Media has also stepped forward to
attack the film, saying that it  attacks the
Catholic Church's teachings as the cause of
the failings [of priests] and attempts to
undermine the Church's moral authority.


 Priest  will now be released on April 19.

Sources: Reuters, 3/24/95; UPI, 3/24/95;
Morality in Media Press Release, 3/24/95