Tag: Kino Art Cihlářská 19 Brno

Cardinal Michael Czerny - A priest with Jewish roots

Cardinal Michael Czerny - A Priest with Jewish Roots Wednesday, May 28 at 5 pm Kino Art Cihlářská 19 Brno Festive screening of a twenty-five minute film documentary about the eminent Brno native Michael Czerny, a close collaborator of Pope Francis and head of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development. Camera and editing by Jakub Fišer, sound by Jiří Hruban, subject and direction by Martin Reiner. The film was co-produced by the Mehrin Foundation and Czech Television. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cardinal Michael Czerny and the filmmakers. Michael Czerny was born in 1946 in Brno into a family of a Jewish woman and a Brno German. His parents and grandparents were Catholic, which did not prevent the Germans from murdering part of the family in the extermination camps. His mother, Winifred Czerny, spent almost two years in Nazi prisons and concentration camps in Leipzig, Hagibor and Terezín during the war. In late 1948, the family emigrated to Canada with their sons Michael and younger Robert. At the age of seventeen, Michael Czerny joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest ten years later. In October 2019, Pope Francis named him a cardinal. The cardinal's great-great-grandfather, Michael Hayek, co-founded the Starobrno brewery in 1873. The entrance fee of 50 CZK/person, which is intended to cover the costs associated with the screening, can only be paid directly at the Cinema Art box office before the screening