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This is a list of films condemned by the National Legion of Decency, a United States Catholic organization. The National Legion of Decency was established in 1933 and reorganized in 1965 as the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP). Under each of these names, it rated films according to their suitability for viewing, assigning a ...
1950 May 11 Jacques Tourneur: The Flowers of St. Francis: 1950 December 14 Roberto Rossellini: The First Legion: 1951 April 27 Douglas Sirk: Journey Into Light: 1951 September 28 Stuart Heisler Quo Vadis: 1951 November 8 Mervyn LeRoy I Confess: 1953 March 22 Alfred Hitchcock: Martin Luther: 1953 May 8 Irving Pichel The Robe: 1953 September 16 ...
The 45 movies are divided equally into three categories—religion, values, and art—with no order of importance placed on the films. The council was careful not to regard the films on the list as the "best", or most important, saying: "not all that deserve mention are included".
From the 1930s through the 1960s, Catholic parishes in dioceses across the country administered yearly pledges in which millions of Catholics throughout the U.S. vowed to refuse to watch films that were condemned by the Legion. [27] "Although the Legion was never officially an organ of the Catholic Church, and its movie ratings were nonbinding ...
Films about Catholicism, involving the Catholic Church, which maintains that it practises the original Christian faith taught by the apostles, preserving the faith infallibly through scripture and sacred tradition as authentically interpreted through the magisterium of the church. Catholicism portal; Film portal
The Vatican Film Library was instituted by Pope John XXIII on November 16, 1959, with the aim of collecting and preserving films and recorded television programs on the life of the Catholic Church. It was initially entrusted to the then Pontifical Commission for Cinematography, which in 1964 became the Pontifical Commission for Social ...
Following is a list of highest-grossing religious films Grosses presented here are worldwide box office receipts. Films must have surpass $1 million. Films must have surpass $1 million. Rank
Pages in category "Films critical of the Catholic Church" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .