Hollywood loves to find hot books to turn into movies. But, to the best of my knowledge, none of the five books on this list — all based on true stories and all touching on the subject of faith — are currently in development at any studio. A BOLD FRESH PIECE OF HUMANITY by Bill…

It’s one of the great Hollywood mysteries.  Right up there with The Maltese Falcon, Rear Window and Memento. Why, despite continuous evidence to the contrary, does Hollywood continue to act as if making movies featuring protagonists who practice religious faith is somehow antithetical to mainstream box office success? True, the relative success of certain faith-based…

Mother Teresa, the Nobel Prize-winning Catholic nun who died in 1997 and whose life-long devotion to the poor is respected by almost everyone not named Christopher Hitchens, would have been 100 years old this coming August 26th. In honor of that event, the Catholic League made a formal request to honor her life on that…

Did she or didn’t she…exist? Based on a novel that is itself based on a legend that won’t go away, the new German film Pope Joan tells the story of a ninth century young woman who, frustrated by a lack of opportunities for women (the 9th century was, after all, pre-Title 9), allegedly disguised herself…

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