At first I thought that they were Roman Catholic, because the school was named "St. Mathilde". Also, Di was shown confessing sins to the preacher, which I thought was a Catholic custom. But then the girls sneered with disapproval when they were told that Fiamma was Roman Catholic!
I'M CONFUSED!!!
They all are Catholic, but Roman church as the Catholic center has the highest fund, it must be formed by the most rich peoples, so they think Fiamma may act so high among them.
shareCatholic I would suppose. In the book they were all Protestants except for one character (don't remember which one though) and were very critical when they heard Fiama was an "R.C.".
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November...
I don't think they were supposed to be Catholic. When they hear that the Spanish girl is Catholic, they start talking about dead babies being found under convents. That's something certain types of protestants like to talk about, not Catholics. And anyway, it was pretty clear that they were talking about Catholics as being a separate group from themselves.
As for the confesstion scene: I think the writers just wanted to have an excuse to get one of the girls' talking about her sex fantasies, and figured all the dirty old men in the audience wouldn't care about theological accuracy.
Never seen this movie, don't know what religion they are. However, there are other Christian groups that do confession besides Catholics. I was raised Episcopalian, and when I was going through Confirmation, we had to do confession as part of the process.
shareThey are Anglican - members of the Church of England which is a Protestant religion which retained some of the Catholic rites.
sharemsandland --- Absolutely right. This is a Church of England school, and those are Church of England hymns they're signing in their chapel.
As King Henry VIII created the Anglican religion primarily so that he could divorce his wife, it did and continues to strongly resemble the Roman Catholic religion in a variety of ways, much more so than most other Protestant denominations that broke with Rome over more doctrinal issues.
The school is what's generally known as "high" Anglican, meaning that they carry on some Catholic traditions despite being Church of England e.g. they confess their sins and refer to the vicars as "fathers".
shareThe school is what's generally known as "high" Anglican, meaning that they carry on some Catholic traditions despite being Church of England e.g. they confess their sins and refer to the vicars as "fathers".
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