The world will experience in the saint a person, who like Christ, is both ordinary and extraordinary.
“In their lives the form of Christ takes shape and becomes tangible to the world. “The saints are exemplars of holiness par excellence,” Bishop Barron writes in his introduction to the study program. Like its predecessor, The Pivotal Players takes a measured, elegant approach modeled on Kenneth Clark’s BBC documentary Civilisation, crossfading through radiant images of art, architecture, and nature crowds of pilgrims and sightseers in the great cities of Europe and a winding narrative that is always intellectually stimulating but never dull.īut where the original Catholicism series took orthodoxy as its starting point, delving into “The Teachings of Jesus,” “The Ineffable Mystery of God,” and other cornerstones of Catholic thought, The Pivotal Players is a journey into orthopraxy, and the full flowering of these beliefs in the lives of flesh-and-blood people down through the centuries. One prominent journalist rightly called it “the most important media project in the history of the Catholic Church in America.”
Volume One of The Pivotal Players (a second six-part volume is still in development) builds on Bishop Barron’s groundbreaking 2011 series Catholicism, which sold more than 100,000 DVD copies, aired on hundreds of PBS stations around the world, and has been seen by millions. In Bishop Robert Barron’s new documentary film series Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, he journeys into the lives of six people who helped shaped the Catholic Church – and the whole world.
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