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Nazario Gerardi plays Francis in “The Little Flowers of St. Francis” (The Criterion Collection)
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.
Anthony Quinn and Leo McKern in ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’ (MGM)
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
The election of a pope is a joyful thing. But in this 1968 film starring Anthony Quinn, being pope is the hardest job in the world.
Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina in Fellini’s “La Strada” (Janus Films)
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
Throughout his papacy Pope Francis referenced ‘La Strada’ in homilies, interviews and public addresses.
Michael B. Jordan, left, in “Sinners” (Warner Brothers)
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
As the film’s title promises, there is plenty of sin on display, even before the vampires arrive.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
Martyrdom finds perhaps its most powerful cinematic expression in Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), a classic of the silent film era and widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.
Arts & CultureCatholic Movie Club
John Dougherty
‘A Man Escaped’ is a story of a man seeking temporal salvation, but Robert Bresson’s film takes on deeper meaning, becoming a parable of the Spirit.