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XXXIX: Catholics (Jack Gold, 1972)
Peculiar television movie starring Trevor Howard and Martin Sheen, and produced by Barry Levinson (but not that one). Vatican 4 has brought the Catholic church together with other religions and decreed that the mass is purely symbolic. On Craggy Island, Father Ted Crilly an Abbott (Howard) is celebrating mass in Latin and is being told not to by the Father General's envoy Father Kinsella (Sheen). The Abbott resists at first, then reveals a secret to the envoy.
Based on a Brian Moore novel of the same name (and Moore wrote the script), this is a curious paradox of a film in which the Catholic church insists on the importance of the individual conscience, then forbids specific beliefs. Christianity requires faith and miracles - so what is left when these are removed? At any point you expect it to end up like the Wicker Man as sinister islanders frown in the background.
Totals: 39 - [Cinema: 12; DVD: 24; Television: 3]
Peculiar television movie starring Trevor Howard and Martin Sheen, and produced by Barry Levinson (but not that one). Vatican 4 has brought the Catholic church together with other religions and decreed that the mass is purely symbolic. On Craggy Island,
Based on a Brian Moore novel of the same name (and Moore wrote the script), this is a curious paradox of a film in which the Catholic church insists on the importance of the individual conscience, then forbids specific beliefs. Christianity requires faith and miracles - so what is left when these are removed? At any point you expect it to end up like the Wicker Man as sinister islanders frown in the background.
Totals: 39 - [Cinema: 12; DVD: 24; Television: 3]
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