I love that actor who played a Catholic priest in a movie and, as a result, became a Catholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am of course talking about Alec Guinness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That priest he played was Chesterton\u2019s Father Brown in the 1954 \u201cThe Detective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In his biography \u201cBlessings in disguise\u201d he writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI hadn\u2019t gone far when I heard scampering footsteps and a piping voice calling, \u2018mon pere!\u2019. My hand was seized by a boy of seven or eight, who clutched it tightly, swung it and kept up a non-stop prattle. He was full of excitement, hops, skips and jumps, but never let go of me. I didn\u2019t dare speak in case my excruciating French should scare him. Although I was a total stranger he obviously took me for a priest and so to be trusted. Suddenly with a \u2018Bonsoir, mon pere\u2019, and a hurried sideways sort of bow, he disappeared through a hole in a hedge. Continuing my walk I reflected that a church which could inspire such confidence in a child, making its priests, even when unknown, so easily approachable could not be as scheming and creepy as so often made out. I began to shake off my long-taught, long-absorbed prejudices.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cIf I have one regret (leaving aside a thousand failings as a person, husband, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend \u2013 and my lazy, slapdash, selfish attitude as an actor) it would be that I didn\u2019t take the decision to become a Catholic in my early twenties. That would have sorted out a lot of my life and sweetened it.\u201d ( p. 560)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Now if you were thinking of another actor playing a priest who just became Catholic and is currently in the news, well then I heard that Shia LeBeouf was influenced by Dietrich von Hildebrand\u2019s \u201cTransformers in Christ\u201d\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Detective (Father Brown) (1954) – Decent Films<\/a>
Blessings in Disguise – Alec Guinness<\/a>
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