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/^t/It is Monday afternoon in October 1995. Rarely has the entrance gate to the Rialto cinema - one of bigger cinemas in Poznan - been so crowded. One could wrongly guess that this is a line for a best-selling movie. Actually, people in the crowd are picketing to prevent other people from getting in and buying tickets. The movie drawing this crowd is The Priest by Antonine Bird, a film that has aroused intense opposition in the Catholic Church in Poland. What is it about this film that has offended Catholic sensitivities?