Set in an abbey on a storm-swept island off the coast of Ireland, Catholics is the story of a dramatic confrontation between a liberal papal emissary and a traditionalist abbot--a fight for the soul of a changing Church.
Adaptations (1)
Catholics was adapted into a 1973 film.
Catholics1973 · film · 76 min · dir. Jack Gold · IMDb ↗In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have begun to have an international following. Martin Sheen is sent from Rome to bring them to task and they must confront what is truly essential in their worship and what is not.