X-Files dud: It's about faith?

I never got into the X-Files when it was all the rage. And I have not watched the movie, which apparently bombed at the box-office because no one really understood what it was about. Here is an article about it in The Guardian claiming it is about faith. And the Guardian being the Guardian, they don't much like it.*

Once his TV series and its associated activities had come to an end, Carter [the creator of the series] took five years out. He went surfing, learned to fly and climbed mountains. In addition, he says, he came "closer to faith". He seems to have returned to the X-Files destined to reinvent the franchise for a new age in the light of his own epiphany, consciously or otherwise.

In his film, the message is laid on with what at first seems like excessive and unpersuasive zeal. The wintry Virginia landscape is as unforgivingly frozen as our own faithless world. In enforced retirement, Mulder clings stubbornly to his belief that there are more things in heaven and earth than Horatio dreams of. This leads him to endorse the apparently psychic visions of a paedophile priest, who in turn trusts in God's forgiveness. Scully is the sceptic on all of these counts, but puts her faith in untried medical treatments (she's now a doctor) and the God of the Roman Catholics.

Interesting. If true.

*remember Toynbee's anti-Christian review of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"?