It’s no secret that director Martin Scorsese is fascinated by religion. Almost all of his movies include some Biblical allusion, theological meditation, or, in the case of “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “Silence,” center-stage depictions of the church and its sacred texts. Despite the filmmaker’s interest with the subject, though, it may come as a surprise that he actually studied to become a priest, but reveals in a new documentary that he was kicked out of his Catholic seminary for bad behavior.
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