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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in Ontario, Canada, the story takes places around a young couple who decide to adopt an orphaned Catholic girl. The Protestant community goes into an uproar, accusing the couple of trying to secure political votes with the Catholic community. Whispers about the adopted girls out-of-wedlock-birth and her past with pyromancy abound.
5) Stella days
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
A small-town cinema in rural Ireland in the 1950s becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between Rome and Hollywood, and a man and his conscience. Father Daniel Berry and the townsfolk find themselves on the cusp of the modern, but still clinging to the traditions of the church and a cultural identity forged in very different times.
Publisher
First Run Features
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace...Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography...
Series
Publisher
FMG Home Video/Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Richard Rodriguez has expressed provocative views on diversity and its relationship to identity. Bill Moyers speaks with Rodriguez about spirituality, mortality, and growing up in a Catholic family and community that were often at odds with Protestant-dominated America. An atmospheric physicist and a leading expert on global warming, Sir John Houghton speaks as a scientist and evangelical Christian. He explains his belief that science and religion...
8) Going my way
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Father O'Malley is the new priest at the Church of St. Dominic in a working-class New York City neighborhood. He fails to make a good first impression with crusty old Father Fitzgibbon, who doesn't approve of O'Malley's golf playing, baseball game attending, or fishing. But O'Malley starts spiffing up the church and its neighborhood: dealing with the church mortgage, which is in arrears, and straightening out the street gangs by getting the boys to...
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
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