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ERIE TIMES-NEWS: Preacher, Hard As Nails, Debuts on HBO, by Gerry Weiss

Shocking and unconventional. Aggressive and intense. In you face and brutally honest. "Yeah, I've been called all those. And much worse," Justin Justin Fatica says during a phone interview from his home in Syracuse, N.Y., before excusing himself to take another call. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.

HUFFINGTON POST: The Making of My HBO Documentary "Hard As Nails," by David Holbrooke

Tonight at 8pm Eastern, one of the stranger relationships of my life will enter a new phase. Tonight - and through January - HBO will air Hard As Nails, a documentary I directed about an incredibly charismatic and compelling Catholic lay-minister named Justin Fatica. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.

NEW YORK OBSERVER: (The Observer on Justin Fatica) Former Today Producer Debuts HBO Doc On Rise of Manic Evangelical Leader, by Felix Gillette

Tonight at 8 pm, HBO will premier Hard As Nails, the first feature-length documentary of former Today Show producer David Holbrooke. The doc focuses on the hardcore ministry of a hyper-charismatic 29-year-old un-ordained Catholic minister named Justin Fatica, who travels the country, using somewhat unorthodox methods to attract legions of angsty teenagers to the word of God. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.

NEW YORK TIMES: Tough Love, Conveyed With Nails and A Cross (Television Review: "Hard As Nails"), by Susan Stewart

In one of the strangest scenes from "Hard as Nails," a documentary that will be shown Monday night on HBO, an unordained Roman Catholic minister named Justin Fatica stands before a teenager and shouts, "Jesus loves you!" as an assistant slams a metal folding chair against the minister's back. And that is not even the most painful scene in this intimate and disturbing film. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE.