The Vatican has slammed the new movie The Golden Compass and asked New Line film studio not to distribute it.
The film, based on a novel of the same name by Philip Pullman, has topped the box office in Britain but the Catholic church called it anti-Christian and cold. The Vatican has issued a statement saying it hoped New Line would abandon the idea of filming the sequels, reports contactmusic.com.
The statement said: "In Pullman's world, hope simply does not exist because there is no salvation but only personal, individualistic capacity to control the situation and dominate events."
It further called the movie the "most anti-Christian film possible". The film portrays the church as an orthodox dictatorship, which conducts cruel experiments on children and tries to suppress free will.
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