What’s your favorite Catholic Movie?

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St Joseph of Cupertino The Reluctant Saint, I LOVE this movie, I’ve seen it so many times.
 
I didn’t flag you, but a lot of posters on here think Dogma is highly disrespectful. For starters, it has a woman playing God. And the whole marketing thing with George Carlin. When people start a thread on Favorite Catholic Movies, they expect to see movies about kind and heroic priests and nuns, Biblical epics, Saint stories etc. Not satire poking at the Church.
 
In addition, it’s just bad satire. It’s not even funny or clever. It’s like an angsty community college goth wrote it to get back at his Catholic dad.

But I didn’t flag it and think flagging is generally a weak sauce move.
 
I don’t know if it’s technically a Catholic movie per se but Dead Man Walking, along with some of the others above. Sarandon’s character of Sister Prejean deserved the Oscar.
 
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I almost forgot my other fav Catholic movie: Hitchcock’s “I confess”.
 
I like Sydney Penniy’s Bernadette more! But both are good. 🙂 Then there is the sequel to it, The Passion of Bernadette.

Bernadette is one of my favorite saints. Humble, yet a bit saucy. Great sense of humor, though as devout as they come, a simple down to the earth girl from the Pyrenees and yet was very elevated in her holiness and capacity for suffering for the Love of God and the salvation of souls.
 
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Yes! Risen was very good.

And although it was technically a high church Anglican story … The Christmas Candle seemed very Catholic too.

With a last Sunday of Advent Mass, angels, statues and Christian art, candles, priestly vestments, and an intriguing look at how people of faith deal with change. Change from within mandated by Church leadership (the new priest decided to incorporate electricity into the previously candle-lit Church on the “progressive” side, while people who had longstanding traditional roles within the local Church … like the choir member whose beautiful voice had always been featured, had to deal with doing things differently).

The little town believed that an Angel sometimes blessed ONE candle every 25 years or so and the recipient got a personal miracle (mostly of modest moment … yet still “a miracle”). The young priest, worried that perhaps a bit of superstition was being married to the faith takes modest, but purposeful action according to his convictions.

The rest I won’t spoil.

In this clip, Susan Boyle, who always sings the “candle song” at the last Sunday of Advent Mass gets the sad news that this year she won’t be singing it … nor will anyone else. Father is surprised to find that there is also a traditional purple Advent vestment his predecessors have worn for years. A chasuble. 😇 🕯️

 
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I enjoyed it, but it toyed around a little too much with some of the history for my tastes.
 
A Man For All Seasons, There Be Dragons, and For Greater Glory: the True Story of Cristiada
 
The Miracle Of Fatima, Going My Way, and The Bells Of St Mary’s are 3 of my favs.
 
The Trouble With Angels and Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows are 2 more.

There really aren’t any Catholic themed movies I don’t like.
 
Lily, those two movies we watch every Christmas eve. Really good Catholic values, charm, humor.
 
By no stretch of the imagination is this a “Catholic movie”, but Black Snake Moan contains a powerful pro-life message — Lazarus’s wife having an abortion (“she cut it out”) and Rae being told she would have been aborted.

It isn’t a movie for kids or young teens (sexual situations and very brief partial nudity), but still an outstanding film. With Samuel L. Jackson and Christina Ricci, that’s almost a foregone conclusion.
 
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