Looking for a particular 1980s movie

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Hi all,

I remember watching a movie over and over again when I was a little girl and can’t find it on IMDB or Amazon.com.

I don’t know if it was a “Catholic” movie or not, but it was about a priest, I believe living in Italy, who befriended a little girl who was from a poor family. It was a touching movie, but that is all I remember of it. I thought the title was something like “Amazing Grace,” but can’t find any movies made in the 1980s with that title.

Does anyone here remember it at all?
 
I do not know the answer. But, I am sure there are plenty of movie buffs here that do.
 
Was it possibly called “Priest”? Does the young girl who he meets have a father who sexually abuses her? If this isn’t the movie you are thinking of, I would really recommend watching it anyway. It’s a really great movie.
 
You’re probably thinking of the 1985 movie “Saving Grace”.

Plot summary:
“A troubled man, hemmed in by the protocol of his position, Pope Leo XIV (Conti) impulsively opts for a working holiday. Moved by a little girl’s story of her village - stricken by an earthquake and without a priest - the undercover Holy Father hitchhikes deep into the (picture postcard) Italian south, and proceeds to preach the protestant work ethic to people whose major source of income is government aid derived from the odd staged epidemic. Through his arduous efforts - ‘he’s a Pope who smiles, a Pope who cries, a Pope who loves, hates, and learns to love again’ - Leo sets the villagers in motion once more.”
 
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Was it possibly called “Priest”? Does the young girl who he meets have a father who sexually abuses her? If this isn’t the movie you are thinking of, I would really recommend watching it anyway. It’s a really great movie.
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:tsktsk: :tsktsk: That wasn’t the one about the gay priest who was ostracised and then befriended that little girl with the communion scene of just those to giving and recieving is it? I was appaled at that movie. Yes he did help the little girl but I thought that was about as an anti catholic movie as you could get. Especially with the sypathies to breaking vows in a homosexual way and then justifiying it.
 
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:tsktsk: :tsktsk: That wasn’t the one about the gay priest who was ostracised and then befriended that little girl with the communion scene of just those to giving and recieving is it? I was appaled at that movie. Yes he did help the little girl but I thought that was about as an anti catholic movie as you could get. Especially with the sypathies to breaking vows in a homosexual way and then justifiying it.
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Yes, that is the movie, and I thought it was great. It showed the struggles that real people have and the priest was very torn about whether he should break the seal of confession to help that young girl.
 
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Yes, that is the movie, and I thought it was great. It showed the struggles that real people have and the priest was very torn about whether he should break the seal of confession to help that young girl.
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I don’t know about the real people you know but I thought it was very offensice. Here is the review from US conference of Catholic Bishops website. And I think they are way to nice.
Priest – Flawed British drama probes the conflict between religious ideals and human frailties in a story set in a working-class Catholic parish where a young curate tries to live a life of celibacy, yet initiates several homosexual encounters, partly out of torment at his helplessness in stopping a case of incest revealed in confession. Director Antonia Bird provides a credible picture of a lonely priest in a busy parish, though its emphasis on his struggles with his own sexuality strangely lacks any notion of sin and the ambiguous ending in an emotionally powerful scene of reconciliation leaves matters unresolved. Serious treatment of a very troubling subject, depictions of homosexual acts and occasional crude language. (A-IV) (R) ( 1995 )
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Also I can’t believe how glossed over some things are. There is a scene in this movie where a priest (now I am going to use some language which others may not like but I think “oral sex” is glossing over the true image of this film.) gets a blowjob in a car and is caught by a police officer. there is never any moral reprecussions for this none whatsoever, it is pro gay and anti Catholic. Question, couldn’t this movie had been made without the pro homosexual priest agenda. Like would the movie had lost anything if he had done this with a woman. Actually I don’t think he needed to be portrayed as struggled as they made him out to be. Why was this an important part of the story. What message is being sent by this particular piece of media about our Church.
 
Well, I have a family member who is gay - so there is a real person I know who is struggling with certain things.
Also, the scene in the car when the police found the priest with the other man…he was humiliated at the police station, was ignored and mocked by most of the members of his parish, told to leave the parish, etc, etc.
I think there were repercussions for what happened. Maybe not the kind you would have liked, but I still think it was a great movie.
I think the most sickening part of the movie was the young girls father, who said he had every right to molest his daughter and that every father thinks that way about their little girls.
To me, that was what was so horrible. Not two consenting adults, but a father raping his daughter.
 
I too have a family member who is gay. He is my cousin. At one of his friends "coming out party they dressed as priests and altar boys to watch this movie. Sadly it is a gay community cult flick.So because of these events I think we have differing views on weather this is a healthy flick. Here is a link of a gay friendly site that reviews this movie as well.
ram.org/ramblings/movies/priest.html
Please read the review it is long but it gives a perspective on how this movie can be detremental.

I know that the sin of incest in this movie is grotesque but if you put cocaine next to meth it doesn’t change the fact that they are still both bad drugs. Yes one is worse than the other, I think that is the producers idea, take one sin and destruction of the Church and match it up next to something worse so it looks great or at least not so bad. The old “why do girls always have that one homely friend” idea
Remember this is a fictional movie so the gay agenda was written in thier with a point.
 
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