Catholic TV and movie characters

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Something I have noticed here lately is that a lot of tv shows and movies give their characters religious ideals. Many times without our right stating it. So, I figured for fun people could list some of their favorite fictional Catholics on a post.

 

[Maximilian75]

the Reagan family on the CBS show Blue Bloods.

 

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I will start:

Wolverine is a lapsed Catholic. If you go back to the old cartoons in the 90’s (the episode where they meat Nightcrawler) he goes to a Catholic Church in France to pray.

Nightcrawler is a very devout Catholic in almost every version he appears.

Elliot Stabler and Dominic Carisi, Jr in Law and Order SVU

 

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Agent Peter Burke in White Collar

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Father Mulcahy on M* A* S* H , for TV

As for movies, there are a lot of great movie priests and sisters. I enjoyed Rosalind Russell as the Mother Superior and the other actresses who played her nuns, in “The Trouble with Angels” and “Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows”

 

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[Entwhistler]

Don’t forget Father Chuck O’Malley in The Bells of Saint Mary’s.

 

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Charlie from the show Lost. He was raised Catholic. Mr Eko on Lost was a Catholic priest, too.

 

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Forensic specialist Abby Sciuto on “NCIS” is Catholic… despite her Goth persona, she not only attends Mass but also belongs to a bowling team made up of nuns. This was alluded to more often in the earlier seasons, not so much now.

 

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And the McAllister family in “Home Alone”. There is a scene where Kevin makes the sign of the cross and says grace before eating his microwave meal prior to unleashing mayhem on Marv and Harry.

 

[MrZoom]

I’m not sure if Captain America is Catholic, but in the first Avengers, he says (after Black Widow tells him Loki and Thor are “basically gods”): “There’s only one God, ma’am, and I’m pretty sure He doesn’t dress like that.”