Movies: Catholic priest

A week before his First Communion, Youssef, a ten-year-old Maronite boy, discovers masturbation and with it, the concept of sin. He tries to negotiate his own deal with God while pressure mounts on him from all directions: his mother, brother, and th...

A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention....

An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso....

Tonj, Sudan is the land with only desperation from poverty and war. This is the story about priest also doctor, educator, musician and architect Lee Tae-seok’s work and hidden episode behind....

Returning to his home town, seminarist Miguel is forced to trade the robes for a charro costume in order to solve several problems that appear in his way, including the female kind....

This Traveltalk series short visits the village of Chichicastenango, Guatemala and emphasizes the influence of the Mayan culture on its people. It shows how the residents intermingle ancient religious practices with Catholic teachings. Narrator James...

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A woman is thinking of abortion, against her firm faith and family's wants....

In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise....

Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden....

A Catholic priest discovers that he was born to Jewish parents...

The everyday stories of a parish priest and his sheep, some more troublesome than others, in Madrid's El Rastro neighborhood....

This early work from Pierre Perrault, made in collaboration with René Bonnière, chronicles summer activities in the Innu communities of Unamenshipu (La Romaine) and Pakuashipi. Shot by noted cinematographer Michel Thomas-d’Hoste, it documents the con...

Since he arrived in Sao Felix do Araguaia, in Brazil, the Catalan bishop Pere Casaldàliga fights for the disadvantaged and the indigenous peoples. Casaldàliga must confront the landowners of the region and rethink the role of the Catholic Church....

Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This...

The piercing cold of 10 below zero wasn't even a problem. In February, 2009, about 400,000 people gathered in Myung Dong for a brief meeting for a single reason. The late cardinal KIM Sou-hwan became the first cardinal in a land of poor faith. He sum...

A teacher in a remote village gets hindered by zealot members of the community who still believe in old superstitions....

A priest is controlled by evil forces and forced to do nasty acts....

A bus driven by the father in charge of a children's choir breaks down in the middle of the road on the way to Samayac, a town where its inhabitants practice witchcraft....

Biopic about Father Damian and his life and work on the island of Molokai....