....In fact, the Church only became the Catholic Church after the Protestant Reformation. Before that, though the term "catholic" was used to signify universality, it was not a proper name.

Wow, you step away from the Catholic Church for about 3 decades and everything goes to Hell in a handbasket! Altar girls!.....

Bob Dylan to be played by six men and a woman by John Harlow

THE ENIGMATIC singer Bob Dylan has finally given permission to a Hollywood studio to make a film about his life. He will be portrayed by seven actors — one of them a black woman.
Todd Haynes, the Oscar-nominated director, confirmed last week that he is searching for a woman who can do justice to the short white Jewish singer’s “inner blackness”.

The seven will play Dylan during different eras in his 43-year career, starting in the 1960s when his song The Times They Are A-Changin’ became an anti-war anthem.

It is traditional in films spanning a lifetime for characters to be played by more than one actor, but rarer for them to change sex or race. Haynes is considering actresses ranging from the pop singer Beyoncé Knowles to the tennis champion Venus Williams and the television presenter Oprah Winfrey.

Haynes has built his reputation on being different: his first film, about the life of the anorexic singer Karen Carpenter, had a cast of Barbie dolls.

He made his name with Velvet Goldmine, in which Ewan McGregor played a gender-bending rocker, before going on to receive an Oscar nomination for screenwriting for his 2002 film Far from Heaven.

Last week the 44-year-old director said Dylan was “too complex” to be played by a conventional actor. “I am setting out to explode the idea that anybody can be depicted in a single self,” he explained.

He said that Dylan, who has rejected many other offers, had approved this project because of its unconventional casting. Costing £30m, the film is due for release next year under the title I’m Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan.

Paramount, the producers, are not totally convinced. An executive said: “Dylan has always acknowledged his debt to blues and gospel, but critics may say there are other ways of celebrating the African-American musical heritage. Todd is, however, a serious film maker and we are confident that he will treat it all with respect. We hope.”