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Caption: Emilio Estevez directs his father, Martin Sheen, along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain while filming
Emilio Estevez directs his father, Martin Sheen, along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain while filming "The Way." The film will premier at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 10. (CNS/courtesy The Way)
At father's urging, Estevez makes film he sees as metaphor for life

By Michael Swan
Catholic News Service

TORONTO (CNS) -- Actor and director Emilio Estevez reluctantly went to Spain to tell a story about how faith, hope and walking are all part of the American way of overcoming hard times.

The movie has "no nudity. There are no explosions. There are no car chases," said Estevez. "It's about people. It's about this community of broken souls. And there's a ton of humor in it."

Estevez told The Catholic Register, a Canadian weekly, that his new film "The Way" is about American spirituality. The story follows four characters walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, or the Way of St. James, through Spain.
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Caption: Flood victim Mohammad Ramzan touches the door that remained Sept. 1 after his house was washed away by summer floodwaters in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan. The flooding has destroyed cropland and livestock and displaced millions of people. (CNS/Reuters)
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Editors: Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 40, No. 14 (Sept. 9, 2010):

-- In a message to the Muslim community for the end of Ramadan, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who heads the Vatican agency for interreligious dialogue, recalls the pledges Catholics and Muslims have made to work together to overcome violence among the followers of different religions.

-- People hunger for faith today, and only Jesus Christ, encountered in the lives of his followers, can truly satisfy the depth of their hunger, says Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali.

-- Cardinal John Henry Newman wanted to form Catholics capable of living and witnessing their faith even in a world not always favorable to the concept of faith. Faced with a growing skepticism toward religion that has been compounded by the clergy sex abuse scandal, the church in Ireland needs to recover Cardinal Newman's synthesis of faith and reason if it is to create in young people a new sense of Catholic faith, says Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin.

-- In a time of spiritual fatigue, of caution and even disillusionment, a time when many hesitate to project a vital future for the church, Passionist Father Donald Senior, a biblical scholar, reminds that belief in the future and the future of the church is a profound conviction of Christian faith.
 
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