Review – Constantine's Sword

This documentary seems to be an uneven combination of two different scripts. One thread is author James Carroll’s discomfort with the Roman Catholic church’s anti-Semitism, particularly Pope Pius XII’s complicity in the Holocaust. The other is a criticism of mega-churches’ efforts to evangelize in the U.S. military in general and the Air Force Academy in particular. To be sure, the two stories have some common elements, such as the use of the blood libel. But there’s a qualitative as well as quantitative difference between continuing a centuries-old practice of persecution by aiding and abetting Hitler and being a garden-variety right-wing bigot. Further, Carroll’s point that God doesn’t sanction violence – however accurate – isn’t really directly demonstrated by either of the beefs he raises. The result of this lack of focus is a meandering movie that does a poor job of proving a rather obvious point. See if desperate