Controversial for its time The Catholics stars Trevor Howard in a powerhouse performance as the Abbot in charge of a remote Irish monastery in Mork Eire. In defiance of an edict from Rome the Abbot and his monks elect to travel to the Irish mainland in order to celebrate the Mass in Latin. Refusing to bow down to Papal pressure and use English for their Mass the monks of Mork soon become celebrated amongst orthodox Catholics and Eire turns into a place of international pilgrimage. Alarmed by the Abbot's populist move Rome acts to quell the dissent when The Father General... (Raf Vallone) sends his representative Father Kinsella (Martin Sheen) to force the Abbot to cease the Latin masses or be transferred to another position. When the two men argue against each other's religious beliefs and interpretations the Abbot discovers that it is not just the teachings of his church that he has come to question but the very basis of his own belief in God. [show more]
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1970's made-for-TV drama in which a papal emissary is sent to Ireland to try and quell the unrest caused by a group of priests who aren't following the Vatican's line. Set at an unspecified point in the future where the Catholic hierarchy has liberalised elements of its doctrine and practice, Father Kinsella (Martin Sheen) is summoned to a meeting at the Vatican and informed of goings-on in Ireland. A group of renegade priests, led by their Abbot (Trevor Howard), appear to be ignoring guidance from the church hierarchy and rejoicing in traditional ceremony and belief. Will the arrival of Father Kinsella re-establish order?
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