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'Lady of Guadalupe' avoids tough truths about the Catholic Church and Indigenous genocide

  • Written by Rebecca Janzen, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
imageThe 2020 film is the latest of many movie takes on this Catholic miracle story.@ladyofguadalupemovie via Facebook

The film “Lady of Guadalupe,” first released in 2020 and now available on many streaming services, mixes a fictional retelling of the 16th-century appearance of the Virgin Mary to a Mexican peasant named Juan Diego with the...

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