It is the controversial movie that has enraged Catholics throughout the world.
Now, in an extraordinary move, Academy Award-nominated Philomena, billed by one New York critic as a ‘hateful’ attack on Catholicism, may be screened in front of the Pope.
A spokesman for the drama by Stephen Frears, about a woman forcibly separated from her child in the 1950s, said last night talks with the Vatican were under way about arranging a private screening.