My top ten religious movies for Lent

I love movies that depict the power of faith.

There is no one magic formula for a successful religious movie. Sometimes, it is an historical epic. Other times, it is a story of faith in action. Or it could be a docudrama on the life of a saint.

I especially love to dig into these films during Lent and let the beauty of God’s love wash over me.

Here is my updated top ten list of religious movies I like to watch during Lent:

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What is love?

Which one of your kids do you love the most?

I heard this question posed to Dr. Ray Guarandi on the radio. Dr. Ray is a clinical psychologist who also has a call-in radio talk show on Catholic radio called “The Doctor is in.”

Says Dr. Ray, it is not the kid you like the best. Rather, it is…

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Why I’m Catholic

But if there is no arbiter of Truth, there is no truth. Protestantism was built on protest. There is no central authority. As a result, there are 40,000 flavors of Protestantism, with wide-ranging dissent on wide-ranging theological questions.

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Hillary’s coronation may be premature

He was anointed by a mob of slobbering journalists.

Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 because the mainstream media anointed him at Hillary Clinton’s expense. They pointedly gave him a free pass by ignoring the man’s spotty, mysterious past.

Ms. Clinton had no such luxury.

Her sensational history was splattered across the mainstream media, tabloids, and cable television in copious quantity because, well, her scandals and public deceit has been so copious…

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