7 Worst Movie Mistakes About Catholicism 

In God sight we are all children 😇❤

The nuns used to say to us "you little people," but never "my child."

Sometimes Hollywood gets it right, though (maybe?). I really like the priest in RUDY; he seems to consistently reflect the pastoral idea but also tells it straight: “there is a God, and I’m not Him.” Love that scene

Also, the medical and legal fields are portrayed unrealistically.

And 911 dispatch centers. Usually nothing like a real center. Gun stuff is almost always wrong too.

Just goes to show how detached the movie makers really are from the real world. All of the money they put into movies, you'd think they could hire on some real human beings to help

And don’t forget “he’s doing nothing” lol

@@protoman2260 Just lurking around until a protagonist in trouble needs advice

Literally during my conversion I always wondered why is the church closed ad 9pm on a monday, wheres the priest, this is NOT like the movies xD

Oh.. that’s just the worst… 🤦‍♂️

@@endofall12 Yes, especially when they show that anybody can do a successful exorcism just by reading all the magical Latin words.

I'll start off with "The Pope's Exorcist"

​@@pd417 what are the mistakes I may ask?

Netflix’s Midnight Mass would be great too. They got some specifics right

There's this mall chapel where I live that has a confessional that's pitch black inside. Even light from outside doesn't seep in. I tell you that experience was something else.

I’m a wheelchair bound paraplegic. I can’t get into a confessional, so I’ve always had to give confession face to face with a priest.

​@@domloraynaI would LOVE that. I just hope I'd bore him enough to not be there long.

I know a Catholic church that used to keep opened its basement, even during the night anyone can find a shelter there - and something to eat, if necessary, a place to sleep in warmth. As far as I know, there never has been any serious incidents.But I do not really know, if they have discontinued this practice.

A laudable behaviour, to be sure (absolutely no pun intended). Unfortunately, robbery does happen in churches. I used to go to a church in Rome, which kept the doors open. Valuable goods now and then vanished, robbed away. I do not know if they have discontinued their attitude.

Most churches are now locked during the day as well as night. The chance of vandalism and theft is just too high to leave the doors open. A shame but true. There is a church in my county that has 24 hour Exposition but a person has to be there at all times. I guess they are safe but criminals could come in and harm and damage. The door is locked and someone wanting to come in rings the bell and the person inside kind of determines whether or not its safe to let them in.

@@christiandpaul2022Which country?

It's crazy, cause the church has survived and been opened during more trying times. The vikings used to raid and loot churches and monasteries all the time, but because christianity was so important back then these attacks were taken ever more seriously, and lots of money and such was given to get back the stolen goods and kidnapped clergy. I know this decline is very inevitable with the current state of society, but it's very sad to witness, esp the fact the pivotal members of the church appear to care so little about keeping catholic tradition alive, instead of trying to salvage what remains they are more interested in making drastic changes to bring in people who have zero plans of attending church.

At one parish I was with, the front porch of the rectory has two doors. One went went into the rectory and the other went into a confessional. There were separate doorbell buttons so you could, theoretically, go to confession at any time.

As a lifelong Christian, I genuinely had no idea that the Immaculate Conception didn't refer to the Incarnation until I seriously started considering conversion last year.

Oh yes, everyone seems to think that the Immaculate Conception refers to the conception of our Lord by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Our Most 😅Glorious Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary, as opposed to the Roman Catholic doctrine that preseerves the sinlessness of the Theotokos with the Augustinian model of Original Sin.. In Orthodoxy, we do venerate St. Augustine and reject Pelagianism, but our hamartiology, our theology of Original Sin, is based on the refutation of Pelagius by another Latin ascetic, St. John Cassian, who is also a saint in the RCC. His approach to original sin allows the Theotokos to be sinless without requiring the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, but that said I do respect the piety of Roman Catholics that advised the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. Where we do agree of course is in the Assumption, which Eastern Orthodox and the Assyrian Church of the East* call the Dormition, but it is called the Assumption by the Oriental Orthodox. *The Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East, which separated it after it was realized during the reign of the last hereditary Patriarchate Shimun XXIII, that the hereditary patriarchate was a violation both of the ancient Apostolic Canons and the long-forgotten Nomocanon of the Church of the East, and so when Shimun XXIII unilterally switched everything to the Gregorian Calendar, the more traditionalist bishops separated and formed the Ancient Church of the East, whose first Catholicos Patriarch Mar Addai II, memory eternal (he reposed in 2018) also lived in Iraq where most of the faithful were, rather than in the safety of the massive Assyrian American community in Chicago. Tragically Mar Shimun XXIII was assasinated in 1974, and with him, the hereditary patriarchate ended, and the two churches were close to reunifying when the ISIS wars in Syria and Iraq hit, and Mar Dinkha IV, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East since 1974, died in 2014, memory eternal, and this delayed the reunification; the current patriarch Mar Awa Royel, who I met when he was Bishop of California, now lives in Iraq, and it seems likely that as soon as he works out an understanding with his successor at the Ancient Church of the East, Mar Tomo Darmo, the two Assyrian churches will be reunited or at least restore communion in some manner. The Church of the East in old texts is called the “Nestorian Church”, and it is true they venerate Nestorius, but their Christology has not been Nestorian since the Sixth Century, when Mar Babai the Great reformed it along Chalcedonian lines, and the excellent scholarship of Pope Benedict XVI when he was Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith established that the Christology of the Chalcedonian churches such as the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic and sui juris Eastern Orthodox, the Miaphysite Oriental Orthodox communion, and the Assyrian Church of the East, was fully compatible, since all agree that our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ is fully God and fully Man, putting on our humanity in the Incarnation and uniting it with His divinity without there being any change, confusion, separation or division of the distinct humanity and divinity, and this in turn facilitates such Christological principles such as communicatio idiomatum, that being the idea that actions or properties of one nature are communicated to the other, so that we can assert that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the Mother of God, for example.

It even happens in catechism classes, in fact my assistant catechist this year got stumped by that one

That's specific to Catholicism, so many filmmakers that may have been raised in a Protestant tradition wouldn't know the difference. Most Protestant denominations don't teach that Mary had to be without sin, since she supplied the human nature of Jesus while the divine nature comes from the Father, so there isn't a need to explain the sinlessness of Mary as a result. So, the term "immaculate conception" just sounds like a fancy term for the Incarnation, especially since the Annunciation (Luke 1:31) specifically uses the word "conceive" when referring to Jesus.

The problem with this misunderstanding is that it should be intuitive when you hear the words immaculate conception. It basically means being born without sin, so it should be self evident that Jesus Christ God incarnate would obviously not need to be described as sinless if sin is an offense against God and God‘s not sending against Himself is He?

😭😭😭they didn't even try

When I went through RCIA, the teacher was going over the liturgical seasons. She asked, "What are the colors for Christmas?" I brightly answered, "Red and green." She answered in a darkly funny way, "Those are the colors according to Wal-Mart!" 😅 I think about that conversation every year around Advent/Christmas time! It's so hard to find purple and pink decorations!!!

and an army to fight nazi vampires in london.

The formal dialogue is not mandatory. Lots of people in real life receive the sacrament with very little formalities.

@@semaphor81 I guess that’s a possibility, but what irks me is when the television writers obviously didn’t do their homework. 😊

@@semaphor81 The “formal dialogue” is expected in the churches I’ve visited.

Well I will say that Father Casey has an entire video which says that isn't technically the formal way to do confession either

"Formal dialogue"? You better find a priest that knows what he's doing.

Our priest has invited us to play boardgames that require lying in order to win (social deduction style board games). Haven't taken him up on it yet due to scheduling, but might be fun.

I’m trying to play quiddler with my priest, just for fun.

You have a point.

wonder how those writers would react to a preach from one of the priest in my local parrish, one time one of them after preaching the Gospel he got his smartphone and told us about an app to monitor what kids are watching on their phones to keep them from browsing or downloading things inappropiate for them, and he´s in his 60's, definitively not isolated from outside world.

@richardmh1987 my childhood pastor showed his treasured Heart album during a homily...surprisingly it worked.

Why is pop culture worth being aware of?

@@Anonymous-mn8mf because it connects to the younger people who often see "church people" as woefully uncool.

@@pamelatarajcak5634 coolness is not really important compared to sanctity and trying to be "cool" is what is killing the Protestants

I do think he played a fine priest. We could assume his vestments were limited because of his overseas duty. I did like seeing him in the white, but I am also a huge fan of this character, so I will always go towards the positive.

Sister Act still perpetuates the idea that the nuns are closed in in the convent and are out of touch with the world outside, but otherwise I think it is a respectful and in many ways accurate depiction, especially of the religious calling. They at least didn't depict nuns as being afraid of men, having had romantic disappointments or the whatnot.

Yeah, former, lapsed, and non-practicing Catholics can be obnoxious for practicing Catholics to be around. Many of them believe that church hasn't changed since they stopped participating, whether it was 1, 10, or 20 years ago. It would be like me going to the most recent Daytona 500 and asking which car is Richard Petty's or Dale Earnhardt's. (Maybe not that out of touch, but the idea holds.) They also have a hyper tendency to believe that they KNOW the truth, and I'm the one who's wrong.

I thought that the term "Mormon" was no longer acceptable. A rumor?

Your right. We've been asked not you use it by the prophet because the full name is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Because it is not Mormon's church, its Jesus Christ's church. But I'm lazy sometimes and still type mormon.

@@kennyberger5377 Is LDS a more accurate modern name?

@@jameydunne3920 The name "LDS" has been frequently used between Mormons themselves and lacks the historical derogatory connotations associated with the name "Mormon". However, the name "LDS" is too frequently not understood by non-Mormons, and so using it on public forums defeats the purpose, in my experience.

It bothers me to see the improper salute. Uggggggh.

Hollyweird wants the Church to look BAD!

Consultants cost money. Everybody in Hollywood has gone to school and college, visited a hospital and attended a church or synagogue at some time, so they think they know enough to make it look real. On the other hand, the job of the writers is to make things up!

Hollywood wants to proselytize wrong opinions about the church.

that would be they’d have to care and be respectful which they don’t they make a mockery of it all the time

It is extremely odd they don't have consultants. They do for everything else. But even with consultants they mess up a lot of medical stuff and therapy/mental health stuff and they get the details of niche sports (or even well known sports!) wrong, they get dog shows wrong, they get farm life wrong... by that I mean most movies or TV shows are like a kid's wild daydream, with only the most tenuous connection to reality at best.

Yes. When I was a kid, Normal Churches indeed were always open. And it breaks my heart that it became necessary to lock them up.

Even a cardinal would never wear a red chasuble. The liturgical vestments are the same for regular priests and high clergy, they are only more decorated, but the colors are prescribed by the liturgy, not by the status of the priest.

@@Laurelin70 he wasn't wearing a Chasuble, he's wearing the red choir dress of prelates (mozzetta, rochet). It's hard to see, because of the specific screen grab Casey chose. But if you watch the full original scene on RU-vid, you could see it more clearly. I've edited my earlier comment to reflect that.

@@arrysortanez Ah, ok, I thought that you were referring to the scene with the priest in the red (pink? burgundy?) chasuble.

Actually, the stole used during the baptism can be two colours. Violet on one side, then switched to the other. I think it was that way during my children's baptism.

You saw a reverend sis not a nun, nuns stay inside abeg

One of my aunts is a nun and I have never seen here in a habit.

@@PaulsWanderings hmm...that's interesting

Consecrated religious sisters have many jobs. Nuns are always cloistered, don’t participate in public life except through intercessory prayer. So if you meet Sister Mary Martha but she’s working as a teacher/nurse/retreat director, she’s a consecrated religious sister but not a nun. Even if she wears a habit.

I miss the way nun's "penguin up" like they used to. I always thought it was cool to see someone who has dedicated her life to Jesus publicly visible. The same thing goes for priests and brothers. I especially think in this secular world it may be even more important since culture is post Christian. I know that's why my wedding ring is the most important thing I put on my body. It always bothered me when I had/ have to take it off for work.

or when Eco who was supposed to be a priest explained that Jesus was baptized to be cleansed of His "sins"! I wanted to scream

I'm re-watching that show right now1 I'll have to keep an eye out for that episode.

Eko forced his brother Yemi, an actual priest, to sign the papers. Yemi told him that his signing does not make him a priest. He could probably get away with for a time since it was a remote area in Nigeria, but the real mistake is that surely some church official would have eventually questioned his credentials long before he ended up in Australia and flight 815.

@@stephenp5693 yep, that's true. Still, you'd think a decade or I don't know how long of even pretending to be a priest would have still forced him to learn *something* about the very basics of Christianity

That’s how I was taught in the 60’s.😊

@@pdcates6184 Really? So it is an old thing?

@@SamuelVarg Very.

Yeah that's how I learnt it, and I did my communion in 2014

@@chimeremnmaozioko17Must be local variations.

Father John says it is Rose, not Pink!

Agreed. Liturgical seasons/colors too.

As another parish secretary, AMEN! We kind of have 3 priests, but our pastor is also pastor of another parish and lives there, so is primarily there when he isn't running around to the other 3 parishes that were merged into that one. Another priest is in residence and helps with Masses, but primarily works for the Archdiocese so isn't around during the day. And the last priest who is the most likely to be around is technically retired... We do not have enough priests floating around for someone to just be hanging out in the church all the time waiting for someone to come in!

The Nun’s Story The Sound of Music Of Gods and Men The Two Popes The Shoes of the Fisherman Agnes of God I Confess

@@moishglukovskyRudy?

wait, what?? maybe you didn't proof read...??

Easy solution: Buy a plenary indulgence! Church gets more money and person gets out of purgatory. Win-win! (yes, it's snark.)

The Jews talked about "sheol", a temporal place. They didn't have a clear theology of the afterlife.

​@@carolynkimberly4021 Sweet Carolyn, it is all about which Hebrews/Jews said what about the immortality of the soul and WHEN they wrote it all down. Sheol/Grave is akin to the Greek Hades before the Hellenistic mind wrote of Platonic ideas and had such cultic rites as the Elysian mysteries. RU-vidr Rabbi Manis Freidman speaks eloquently of a temporary "Hell" in the same way that Catholic priests talk of Purgatory. Job and Ecclesiastes have vague descriptions of a Sheol/Hades yet it was fully supplanted in both 2nd Temple Judaism and Christianity: fully formed beliefs that we shall all rise from our graves for a Final Judgement in The World To Come. As to whether there is a temporary Heaven, Hell and/or Purgatory "holding pattern" for those departed is up to the longstanding 3-way shouting match between Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergies. Personally, as a depressed Catholic receptive to Jewish ideas, I yearn for Martin Luther's concept of "Soul Sleep" to be the right interpretation: this loveless veil of tears calls to me to take a well-deserved, LONG "dirt nap" from life.

@@carolynkimberly4021 Sweet Carolyn, it is all about which Hebrews/Jews said what about the immortality of the soul and WHEN they wrote it all down. Sheol/Grave is akin to the Greek Hades before the Hellenistic mind wrote of Platonic ideas and had such cultic rites as the Elysian mysteries. RU-vidr Rabbi Manis Freidman speaks eloquently of a temporary "Hell" in the same way that Catholic priests talk of Purgatory. Job and Ecclesiastes have vague descriptions of a Sheol/Hades yet it was fully supplanted in both 2nd Temple Judaism and Christianity: fully formed beliefs that we shall all rise from our graves for a Final Judgement in The World To Come. As to whether there is a temporary Heaven, Hell and/or Purgatory "holding pattern" for those departed is up to the longstanding 3-way shouting match between Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergies. Personally, as a depressed Catholic receptive to Jewish ideas, I yearn for Martin Luther's concept of "Soul Sleep" to be the right interpretation: this loveless veil of tears calls to me to take a well-deserved, LONG "dirt nap" from life.

The demons have turned to Christ

Like which movies?

You need to come to Immaculate Heart of Mary in Concord, NH. The parish most definitely takes part in Mass. We have a large, for New Hampshire, African community and once a month they end Mass with one of their songs sung in their tongue and everyone stands up and "takes part". They also have a special Mass said by an African priest said in their own tongue.

At my parish, everyone sings, not just the choir.