The protagonist of “Porco Rosso” is a pig literally and metaphorically: He’s rude, cocksure and a notorious womanizer.
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‘The Godfather Part III’ asks: Can Michael Corleone’s soul be saved?
“The Godfather Part III” (1990) is the most explicitly Catholic entry in the series.
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‘The Godfather Part II’ and the dark side of the American dream
Despite his performative Catholicism, Michael Corleone puts more stock in the American vision of freedom than the Christian one.
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Catholic Movie Club: Why do we glorify ‘The Godfather’?
The fact that audiences see the story as aspirational is more of a reflection on us as fallen people than the film itself.
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How Whoopi Goldberg evangelized beyond the convent walls in ‘Sister Act’
“Sister Act” embodies the welcoming spirit of a church willing to go out into the street.
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Catholic Movie Club: 9 movies to watch for Pride Month
These are films that I find meaningful and believe resonate with our faith—particularly our call to love our L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and to uphold their human dignity.
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Catholic Movie Club: ‘The Birdcage’ asks us to reconsider traditional American family values
What makes a family a family: that they look like the model, or the way that they love each other?
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Catholic Movie Club: What happens when family and vocation collide in ‘Some Mother’s Son’
What do we do when we find ourselves, or someone we love, torn between convictions and relationships?
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The film ‘20th Century Women’ asks an age-old Catholic question: Embrace the world or retreat from it?
The characters in ‘20th Century Women’ find themselves torn between embracing the new and retreating into the familiar.
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‘Juno’ is neither a pro-life or a pro-choice movie
It would be an exaggeration to call “Juno” pro-life, but it is encouraging to see a popular film diverge from the familiar culture war battle lines.