Midt i forsøket på å legitimere sine forretningsvirksomhet i New York og Italia i 1979, søker en aldrende mafia don, Michael Corleone tilgivelse for sine synder mens han tar en unge nevø Vincent Mancini under sine vinger.
12-år gamle Regan MacNeil begynner å utvikle en tydelig ny personlighet da merkelige hendelser begynner å skje i lokalområdet i Georgetown. Hennes mor er splittet mellom vitenskap og overtro i et desperat forsøk på å redde sin datter, og til slutt vender hun seg til sitt siste håp: Fader Damien Karras, en tungsindig prest som sliter med sin egen tro.
In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, the Catholic Church reopens exorcism schools to train priests in the Rite of Exorcism. On this spiritual battlefield, an unlikely warrior rises: a young nun, Sister Ann. Thrust onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante, Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl and soon realizes the Devil has her right where he wants her.
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Filmen basert på den sanne historien om Boston Globes avsløringer av en massiv skandale i den katolske kirken, som hadde forsøkt å dekke over en rekke overgrep mot barn utført av prester. En av årets store Oscar-favoritter, blant annet med nominasjon for beste film. I 2001 begynte Boston Globe å etterforske en nyhetssak om at flere prester i den katolske kirken hadde foregrepet seg på barn. Etterhvert som avisens Spotlight-redaksjon gravde dypere, skulle sannheten vise seg å være langt mer omfattende og skremmende enn de hadde sett for seg. Filmen tar for seg det enestående arbeidet redaksjonen gjorde for å rette søkelyset mot fakta som mektige krefter iherdig forsøkte å dysse ned.
Korsfarerne Behrmen og Felson vender hjem fra slagmarkene i Midtøsten, men finner sitt hjem utslettet av en ny fiende, pesten. En ung kvinne, anklaget for heksekunster, menes å stå bak sykdommen, og motvillig påtar de to korsfarerne seg oppgaven med å føre henne til et fjerntliggende kloster der man vil rense henne for Helvetes ondskap. Men de virkelige farer gjemmer seg ikke bak hekseburets gitter, men i den pestherjede verden utenfor!
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.
Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.