Top Ten Movies for Fallen-Away Catholics

Pursued by truth ^ | November 25, 2014 | Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble

[NYer]

Ping!

[Argus]

Any such list that doesn’t include THE SONG OF BERNADETTE is kind of useless.

[trisham]

3. Gandhi: This movie was among the top 45 films chosen by the Vatican to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film. I think it is a good choice for fallen-away Catholics because it depicts many Christian values, particularly a vision of justice and peace that is appealing and in line with Catholic teaching. It also shows the life of someone who lived for something beyond himself, and although he was not Catholic, this could actually be a positive because sometimes fallen-away Catholics are more open to stories of spirituality and holiness that are outside their realm of experience. Less baggage.

I disagree vehemently with this choice. I saw much of this movie, and seeing Gandhi beating his wife was very upsetting to me.

[Dr. Sivana]

Some may wonder why I would recommend a movie based on a story written by a fallen-away Catholic.

Actually, I was going to ask why you included a movie based on a book that was on the Index of Forbidden Books.

[virgil]

Henry Poole is Here. Good movie, a little language in it, but pretty good.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Shoes of the Fisherman
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/579710/Shoes-Of-The-Fisherman-The-Movie-Ciip-God-Has-Given-Him-Back.html

[brivette]

I was never very religious, but my daughter is Dean of Admissions to a Catholic High School.

[trisham]

That was a good one.

[AlaskaErik]

My mother was a Catholic and when I was about 10 I was forced to endure an ordeal where a child molester babbled a bunch of nonsense in an extinct language while shoving a cracker and some grape juice down my throat. No one ever asked me if I wanted to be a part of this charade and to this day rabid Catholics claim that I am a Catholic because I went through the initiation process. To anyone who thinks I am a Catholic, I'm not. I also don't consider myself a fallen-away Catholic. I believe that whatever religion you are, it has to come from the heart. And in my heart I never was and I never will be a Catholic.

[trisham]

The Nun’s Story was good, too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053131/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_15

[trisham]

That’s your right.

[brivette]

Amen.

[yetidog]

My mother was Southern Baptist. I was dunked in a big tank not having the slightest idea as to what was happening except that it had something to do with not dancing or drinking—two things I found out later Catholics do quite well. To do this day I am not Southern Baptist.

[RBStealth]

put a yellow ribbon in your hair, take a selfie and post it here

[EEGator]

You sound bitter.

[SkyDancer]

And of course him refusing British doctors to give his wife the penicillin injection she needed because he said it was doing violence to her body but then much later after she died accepted quinine to save himself. The hypocrite the Liberal Left loves. And there’s more, so much more on this guy.

[trisham]

He’s not the man that people have led to believe he is.

[napscoordinator]

I only saw two of them......Gandhi and Les Miserable

[virgil]

I liked Audrey Hepburn. I think the movie’s message was basically that being a Nun is not for everybody.