The Easter season can remind people of classic Hollywood movies with religious themes. Every year, ABC still airs The Ten Commandments. People might break out The Passion of the Christ from 2004, or head to the theater to see The King of Kings or The Chosen: Last Supper, building on that streaming TV series on the life and ministry of Jesus.
But taxpayer-funded National Public Radio is inevitably going to come at the subject from a secular perspective. On Palm Sunday, their badly named newscast All Things Considered included a conversation among three NPR journalists about their “favorite (and not so favorite) religious films.”
The segment ended with the NPR reporters lauding the recent movie Conclave, which indulged a libertine-left fantasy by having the Catholic Church tricked into electing a pope with a uterus.
Weekend host Scott Detrow began: “Even for those of us who live more secular lives, movies continue to offer a bit of a cinematic catechism with stories from the Bible and other religious traditions.” He asked NPR religion reporter Jason DeRose: “What is your general view of that genre? Does it work for you? Do you have some problems with it?”