Silence, Guilt, Christ, and Martin Scorsese

With the release of Martin Scorsese's highly-anticipated “Silence,” what could easily go down as one of Scorsese's greatest—or at least one of his most personal—achievements yet, I think it's worth asking these same sorts of questions of the renowned Italian-American director. Scorsese, of course, has already cemented his place in film history as an all-time great. So, a more interesting question might be this: In the centuries to come, will we look back at Scorsese as not only one of the most prolific filmmakers of this era, but also as one of the most distinctly Catholic? Despite a body of work marked by sex, drugs and blood, will we view Scorsese in the same vein as a Flannery O'Connor—an artist and storyteller so haunted by Christ that he can't help but show it all throughout his work?