God bless Catholic America

  Bing Crosby et Ingrid Bergman incarnent une Église de quartier faite de transmission, de désaccords et de confiance Saint du jour : saint Laurent de Brindisi Laurent de Brindisi naquit en 1559 dans le sud de l’Italie et entra chez les capucins. Grand connaisseur des langues bibliques, prédicateur et diplomate, il parcourut l’Europe au service de la réforme catholique et de la paix. Il exerça également des responsabilités importantes dans son ordre. Mort en 1619, il fut proclamé docteur de l’Église en 1959 et sa mémoire est célébrée le 21 juillet dans le calendrier catholique américain. Summary Released in 1945, The Bells of St. Mary’s stars Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley and Ingrid Bergman as Sister Mary Benedict. The film presents a Catholic parish school threatened by closure, but its deeper subject is the relationship between authority, education, mercy and trust. Its idealized vision of Catholic life also preserves the memory of the neighborhood institutions that shaped gene...

 🎬 Catholicisme et Hollywood : une histoire en technicolor Introduction to the Series American Catholicism has its saints, its martyrs… and its Hollywood stars. What many forget is that the silver screen shaped, as much as pulpits and catechisms, the imagination of the faithful and the curious alike. In the United States, the cassock entered movie theaters long before the pope ever set foot in Central Park. Cinema gave American Catholics something the pulpit couldn’t always deliver: popular stories, familiar faces, shared dramas. From the smiling priests of the 1940s to mobsters weighed down by guilt, from exorcists to journalists uncovering scandals, Hollywood has staged the paradoxes of a faith at once rooted and contested. Why a series of articles? Because Hollywood, far from being a mere backdrop, has functioned as a parallel catechism — a theology in images, accessible to the masses. Films have idealized, criticized, accused, and consoled. They accompanied the integration...