The film Yes, God, Yes (2020) centers around a teenage girl, Alice, in a Catholic high school discovering her sexuality and how it connects to her relationship with religion. This is a coming of age film and very much highlights the turmoils that teenagers experience during the height of adolescence. The central themes of the…

Written by Olivia Anderson Catholicism and Its Values As Seen in Catholic Celebrations Catholicism and its values are closely associated in strengthening relationships. Their traditions and socialization is consistency linked within making their everyday relationships stronger. They want to be closer to God, their community, and their families. In class we have seen how Catholics…

Introduction High school is hard enough as it is, let alone with the constant weight of Jesus Christ watching your every move on your shoulders. Yes, God, Yes (2020) follows teenage Alice as she navigates exploring sexuality within her Catholic upbringing. The idea was first produced as an 11-minute-long short film back in 2017, but it was…

A priest, a nun, and a French-Canadian walk into a catacomb. It sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke, but it’s actually what happens in the 2018 horror film The Nun. The film is set in 1952 and takes place primarily at an abbey in Romania where a nun has committed suicide under mysterious…

Introduction: The comedy, Sister Act takes viewers into a musically filled action-packed journey full of singing nuns, unexpected friendships, habits, and close runnings from the mob. Writer, Paul Rudnick envisioned the movie Sister Act “to be a satire of sugary family perennials like “The Sound of Music,” “The Singing Nun,” “The Flying Nun,” and such…

The Song of Bernadette was released in 1943, and was a box office hit, winning four Oscars and being nominated for an additional eight. It tells the story of a French peasant, Bernadette Soubirous (Jennifer Jones), who in 1858 goes out to gather wood one day with her sister and friend when she stumbles upon…

At face value, The Mission may seem accurate in its expression of the Jesuit missionaries and the Guaraní. A deeper look into the film and the history surrounding its events, however, reveals an underlying flaw that undercuts the “Catholic authority” portrayed within the missions themselves, and draws the rather “overly-pious” nature of the film into…

“Fail to see the tragic, turn it into magic!” -Marylin Manson These words appear across a black screen in ornate, biblical-looking font as the film Little Sister begins. The words fade into the image of an email header and we watch an overly-enthusiastic subject line appear across a computer screen, the persistent clicking of a…

Trigger Warning: Reference of Self-Starvation Novitiate follows seventeen year old Cathleen’s time as a postulant in the novitiate of the Sisters of the Blessed Rose convent.  While the film does a phenomenal job of detailing the trials, tribulations, and varied reasonings for becoming a nun, it also incorporates the outside pressure of being set in…

The Exorcist has been the last cinematographic success of William Friedkin. Produced in 1973, it is the cinematographic adaptation of the book of the same name of William Peter wrote in 1971. Wiliam Friedkin has always been passioned by the eternal fight between the Good and the Evil and that’s exactly the theme of The…