Why Pope Leo is making a plea to save our cinemas
- Written by Ruari Elkington, Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries & Chief Investigator at QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Queensland University of Technology
To the best of my knowledge, Pope Leo XIV has never visited the town of Yass in New South Wales.
Yet efforts by the Yass community to restore the town’s 1930s art deco Liberty Theatre are very much aligned with the Holy Father’s latest pronouncement. The theatre – once a cultural hub for the townspeople – recently screened...





