Although the overall continuity between editions of this book will thus be apparent to anyone who reads both, there are also important changes in both the book’s tone and its content. First, while the power of movies both for good and for ill has long been recognized (Sister Rose’s experience, for example, finds its on-screen equivalent in Woody Allen’s 1985 movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo), the non-liturgical branches of Protestant churches have been slower to accept, let alone embrace, this truth.