A high school student revisits seven churches and chapels close to her faith after being confronted with what seems to her the unforgivable.
An experimental and iconoclastic journey through the Spanish Holy Week in the late sixties.
The story of Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing, and the rise of his Cultural Marxism in the Catholic Church and America.
Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues.
Follows two young women as they decide to leave behind ordinary life and start their journey to becoming nuns.
Vampire Prison stars Eloy Azorín (All About My Mother) as Gabriel, a vampire who has been sentenced to serve time for his sins at Santiago de Compostela, a prison for vampires. He appears to have found a way to avert the rules of his imprisonment and instead continues to indulge in parties and the torture of women but all that changes when he falls for Eva, a woman who isn’t at all what he bargained for.
Raymond Roy is a 64-year-old idealist, an energetic social activist ready to give everything he has to those living on the edge: the alienated, impoverished and exploited members of society. Raymond is also a priest, doing what he has wanted to do ever since he was a teenager. Filmmaker Serge Giguère paints an intimate portrait of a man who has spent 30 years fighting for an alternative vision of life in his community. The film is a blend of cinema vérité and social history that provides a view of the man and his work from without and within, from the poetry of his personal diary laced with doubts and self-criticism, to the many achievements of the community groups he helped. Filming over several years, Giguère gives us a sense of the changes in values and attitudes of those who run our society, along with the role of the community groups who provide solutions, inspiration and a sense of renewal.
A young man at the beach wearing a crucifix tries to put on his Argentina's national football team t-shirt but it suffocates him
A religious young man's identity is called into question when he visits a conversion therapist.
Originally produced in 1997 on the threshold of the Third Millennium of the Christian Era, and in celebration of the Jubilee of the Year of Our Lord 2000, The Vatican Museums was the culmination of three years of research and filming, the collaboration of thirty-two scholars and historians from around the world, a crew of forty directors of photography, operators, and lighting technicians, state-of-the-art digital cinematography, lighting, animation, and computerized editing, and the work of a famous composer with original performances by master musicians. Now available on DVD for the first time, this historic three-disc collection features seven hours of magnificent documentary film that illuminates and chronicles the great journey of the human spirit. Here then is the world's most spectacular and sacred repository of art, history, and faith.
Italy, 1959. A ten-year-old boy called Guido enters a Catholic seminary, fascinated by the idea of becoming a priest. He quickly understands that in order to be a good seminarian he has to submit to an ascetic and unnatural training, consisting in mortification of the flesh, obsession with sin and repression of one's sexual instincts and desires. Guido finds himself up against a deeply hierarchical system, where strict observance of rules and blind obedience to superiors are taught. A system in which thinking for oneself is forbidden.
An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.
Candace is possessed by a demon, and her family has tried everything to save her. Could her last hope be a priest with his own dark secrets?
A short biography of life of St Thomas More. Contains clips from the 1966 feature film "A Man For All Seasons."
A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.
Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Donald Johnson travels around the country to get the story for himself.
While he wanders around his house preparing to sentence the fate of an 18-year-old young man, an old judge must deal with the relentless questioning of his distant wife.