Captain Fantastic, simply put, is a movie about a secluded family that lives in the woods and ventures into society to attempt to crash their mother’s funeral (who died of suicide) the burial she wanted. She was a self-claimed Buddhist, but her parents are Catholic and want to give her a Catholic funeral. So Why…
Benedetta and Immodest Acts
The story of Benedetta is about a young girl in the 17th century in Pescia, Northern Italy who lives her whole life devoted to God. Most importantly, she moved into a convent at age nine in 1599 as a nun and was the Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God from the years…
Agnes: Natural and Supernatural Horrors within Exorcisms
Agnes, directed by Mickey Reece, tells the story of a woman, evidently named Agnes, who lives as a sister of the Catholic faith at the Santa Theresa convent. When she starts to display erratic and bizarre behavior, two religious figures head to the convent to perform an investigation and a potential exorcism. One of the…
Modern Miracles: What the Lourdes Documentary Tells Us About the Nature of Miracles Today
The Lourdes shrine in Lourdes, France is regarded by some as “the world’s most famous healing shrine.” It rests in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, and it hosts a picturesque grotto. It is a famous Catholic pilgrimage site; currently over three million Catholics visit the shrine each year, and it has been popular…
The Nun and the blood of Christ
Summary The Nun starts with two nuns walking through a dark hallway that ends with a sign that reads “God ends here.” Realizing something was about to go wrong, one nun starts to pray as the other goes to see what is going on. As Sister Victoria is praying, she notices the other nun come…
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Summary The movie starts off with Deloris continuing to be a lounge singer, Sister Mary Patrick, Sister Mary Robert, and Sister Mary Lazarus go to visit Deloris to try and bring her back to San Francisco for a favor for Mother Superior. Mother Superior explained that all the other nuns in the convent are now…
Faith vs Love: is there a difference?
“The Sound of Music,” directed by Robert Wise and released in 1965, tells the true story of the Von Trapp family, an Austrian family who escaped Nazi occupation during World War II. Set in Salzburg, Austria in 1938, the film centers around Maria, a spirited young woman who becomes a governess for Captain Von Trapp’s…
Reflecting Religion: The Drama of Confessional in Fleabag
By Mickie Wasmer In the second season of Phoebe Waller Bridge’s Fleabag, the audience is introduced to a nuanced projection of the Catholic faith as Fleabag is introduced to the Priest. Portrayed by Andrew Scott and known throughout the internet as the “Hot Priest”, the Priest is young and unorthodox as Fleabag notes, “He’s their…
Sexuality and Salvation
Sexuality and Salvation: Unveiling Catholicism’s Clash with Sexuality in Mainstream Media through The Exorcist Poster for The Exorcist from 1973 The Exorcist, a timeless tale of terror that has etched its nightmarish imagery into the collective psyche, beckons us once again to delve into its depths of darkness. Released in 1973, this seminal horror masterpiece…
Sister Act: Good Deception or Depiction?
In the film Sister Act starring Whoopie Goldberg as the main character, Deloris Van Cartier, there are moments of comedy, action, and drama as she sings her way into the hearts of the Saint Katherines church nuns. As a Las Vegas showgirl she doesn’t seem to fit in at the beginning after being forced into…
Catholics in the Americas 