'Cesar Chavez': a good alternative to 'Noah'

[randomuser]

This is a state holiday in Arizona (California, too?) on March 31 and the Catholic News Service review of the new biopic makes it clear his faith is front and center:

*"Believers will especially appreciate the fact that Chavez’s Catholic faith is always in the background and sometimes front and center as this meditative take on his story unfolds. At least one pivotal union meeting is held in a church, while Our Lady of Guadalupe adorns a UFW banner as Chavez and his cohorts make a 300 mile-long march – which they term a pilgrimage – to the California state capitol in Sacramento.

During his fast, moreover, Chavez keeps his rosaries by his bedside, and his long suffering is brought to an end with the reception of Communion. (Surprisingly, the outdoor Mass at which this takes place is glaringly truncated; distribution of the host follows immediately after the words of consecration.)"*
Source: catholicnews.com/data/movies/14mv041.htm

Really looking forward to this one.

 

[7armyrugrats]

One of my heroes! I remember my mom explaining to me why I could not have grapes while we were grocery shopping during one of the boycotts. I didn’t know that there was a holiday honoring him, but so happy that not only is there, but that it also falls on my birthday. Hoping to see this movie

 

[Arizona_Mike]

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Cesar Chavez being given holy communion during his 24-hour Fast for Justice at the Santa Rita Center, June 4th, 1972, 1017 E. Hadley, Phoenix, Arizona.

Chavez was by no means a perfect man - who among us is? He was strong in his faith, and accomplished good things for the labor movement, but he had his priorities. He was a Union Man, first and foremost, and saw illegal immigration as a form of strikebreaking (as he testified before Congress) and a challenge to the jobs of his union. He routinely called for government crackdowns on illegal immigration, and the comments he used to describe the La Raza movement (which he compared to Nazism) and illegal aliens (which I can’t repeat) are at odds with the modern media’s depiction of him, such as when he turned in illegal alien farmworkers to the INS or when his UFW formed a border patrol to prevent aliens from crossing the border, which led to some violence directed against border crossers.

I haven’t seen the film yet, does it address these controversies?