My other recommendation is Black Robe. It’s gives a pretty great account on how the North American martyrs would have struggled spreading the faith in the new world & the difficulties they would have encountered & it for the most part doesn’t engage in the sort of modern historiography of European & indigenous encounters.
I wouldn’t overlook Rudy. Sometimes a movie that isn’t ’intellectual’ is a good way to evangelize.
1. It’s a sports movie, so the friend you may want to introduce into the Catholic faith—it’s not in your face a Catholic movie even though the setting is the University of Notre Dame Football team.
2. The script deals with someone who is willing to give everything they have to accomplish a dream. It’s a movie about choosing hard. Spiritually—the Catholic Faith, the economy of the sacraments, & living a life of holiness is choosing hard. It’s love of thyself—willing the good of yourself.
3. It deals with heartbreak. Rudy loses his best friend who dies in a mill accident, the only guy who believes in him.
4. It portrays the CSC clergy in a good light giving good practical advice. It shows how prayer works in a normal persons day to day life & shows the campus & culture of the university.
So it’s not necessarily Catholic; however, The Way (Emilio Esteves and Charlie Sheen) is about the Camino de Santiago. Very, very good. Recommended by our Deacon when he found out my husband and I are walking from Porto to Santiago in June. :)
My other recommendation is Black Robe. It’s gives a pretty great account on how the North American martyrs would have struggled spreading the faith in the new world & the difficulties they would have encountered & it for the most part doesn’t engage in the sort of modern historiography of European & indigenous encounters.
We need to do a video talk on this movie!
I wouldn’t overlook Rudy. Sometimes a movie that isn’t ’intellectual’ is a good way to evangelize.
1. It’s a sports movie, so the friend you may want to introduce into the Catholic faith—it’s not in your face a Catholic movie even though the setting is the University of Notre Dame Football team.
2. The script deals with someone who is willing to give everything they have to accomplish a dream. It’s a movie about choosing hard. Spiritually—the Catholic Faith, the economy of the sacraments, & living a life of holiness is choosing hard. It’s love of thyself—willing the good of yourself.
3. It deals with heartbreak. Rudy loses his best friend who dies in a mill accident, the only guy who believes in him.
4. It portrays the CSC clergy in a good light giving good practical advice. It shows how prayer works in a normal persons day to day life & shows the campus & culture of the university.
One of my favorites!
So it’s not necessarily Catholic; however, The Way (Emilio Esteves and Charlie Sheen) is about the Camino de Santiago. Very, very good. Recommended by our Deacon when he found out my husband and I are walking from Porto to Santiago in June. :)
Pope Pius XII, ora pro nobis!