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Series
Never after novels (McIntire) volume 5
Language
English
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"Father Cade Frédéric is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked to become the priest in Festivalé, Vermont--a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair--his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil. Amaya Paquette is Festivalé's...
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
"'Burying Father Tim' is a fictional story rooted in the power of the human spirit. Narrated by a doctor who returns to his old neighborhood for the first time in nearly forty years to attend the funeral of his boyhood parish priest, the story blends hilarious accounts of childhood escapades with the timelessly poignant theme of loss. Reminiscences resonate as the story unfolds, evoking laughter in one moment and tugging on heartstrings the next....
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Daniel is a young, idealistic priest who loves his work more than anything. While he struggles to find balance between the dueling philosophies of his mentors, Father Victor, an old school, no nonsense traditionalist, and Father Ollie, a chain-smoking, carb addicted Franciscan, Daniel's passion for his calling never waivers. And then he meets Jane. After a chance encounter during a late night confession, the complicated and mysterious Jane, starts...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Icelandic
Description
The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested as he confronts the harsh terrain, temptations...
Series
Father Dowling mysteries volume season 2
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An amiable, inquisitive Chicago priest moonlights as a detective and is assisted by a rather worldly, lock-picking nun.
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1960, the Vatican sent two priests, Father Thomas Riley (Lalor Roddy, Grabbers, Hunger) and Father John Thornton (Ciaran Flynn, The Survivalist, Primeval), to investigate a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood in a rural Irish convent, a "Magdalene laundry", that serves as a religious asylum for prostitutes, the mentally disabled, and unmarried pregnant women. In hopes of capturing photographic evidence of this apparent miracle,...
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English
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"Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the bodies." Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town...
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Series
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English
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"'This document, dear friend, will shatter the Church'-- Reading these words in a letter in a dusty archive, Thomas Kelly is skeptical. The papers to which they refer have vanished, but Father Kelly, a Jesuit priest, doubts anything could ever have had that power-- until the Vatican suddenly calls him to Rome to begin a desperate search for that very document. Meanwhile, standing before a council of her people, Livia Pietro receives instructions:...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A skeptical attorney defends a Catholic priest accused of criminal negligence after a "possessed" girl he performed an exorcism on dies. Based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a young German Catholic woman who died in 1976.
13) Brennan
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As a storm aproaches the gulf coast, and alcoholic ex-priest must rely on a troubled ragamuffin to get him to New Orleans to save his marriage.
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a real-life murder case, the story focuses on Father Rivard, a priest banished to a dreary, poverty-stricken coal-mining town for his radical views. His life is suddenly changed by the arrival of Sister Rita, a vivacious young nun who immediately sets the town talking with her open, unorthodox behavior. But soon talk turns to vicious gossip and tragedy as the self-righteous townsfolk come to believe the love between the nun and the priest...
15) The fugitive
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The story follows a priest in Mexico pursued by a ruthless police lieutenant carrying out the dictates of an oppressive, anti-clerical government. There's another fugitive as well: an American killer on the run, and the paths of the two hunted men cross with fateful consequences. A haunting paean to the resilience of faith, The Fugitive remains a filmmaking triumph.
17) Broken
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed, must be a confidant, counsellor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.
18) El Seminarista
Publisher
Quality Films
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
Español
Description
"Miguel regresa a su pueblo natal de la escuela seminarista acompañado por Toño, su devoto amigo del seminario. Él visita a su mujeriego y parrandero tío Pancho quien le dice a Miguel que no es lo suficiente hombre y lleva a Toño a su parranda. Miguel enseña en una escuela para señoritas. Sale con muchas celosas amantes, mujeres liberales, y varias tentaciones. Ultimadamente, Miguel deja el sacerdocio con un suspiro de alivio para casarse con...
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English
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A terminally ill Anglican priest and his assignment in a coastal Indian community in British Columbia. The nonfiction story behind this book is told in Again Calls th Owl (1984). Best Books for Young Teen Readers. A young minister who has two years to live learns about the meaning of life when he is sent to an Indian parish in British Columbia.
20) Precipice
Author
Series
This generation volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1969, teenaged heiress Kimberly Martin enters a seedy Georgia bar, desperate to end her haunting dreams of alien abduction―but she instinctively knows they are more than just dreams. Aliens are preparing her womb for an implanted hybrid and she has a plan she hopes will stop them, but Kim has no idea that her act of defiance is about to unleash a stream of events that will catapult her and others to the precipice of a plot to take over the world....
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