Pope Leo XIV reveals a very wholesome list of favorite films. You expected different?

The “Purge” movies are missing from the list, arsenic are the entries successful the “Saw” franchise. There are nary “Evil Dead” titles. “The Exorcist” is suspiciously absent.

The list, successful this case, is the favourite 4 films of Pope Leo XIV, f.k.a. Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago. The pontiff released the database via video up of a planned gathering Saturday with luminaries from the satellite of cinema.

To debar the hazard of being played disconnected the signifier by the academy’s orchestra, let’s stock the winners quickly:

1. “It’s a Wonderful Life,” 1946
2. “The Sound of Music,” 1965
3. “Ordinary People,” 1980
4. “Life Is Beautiful,” 1997

That’s it. No “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” No “Pope Joan” oregon “Spotlight” oregon “Conclave,” for evident reasons. No “Sister Act” oregon “Oh, God!” oregon immoderate of the associated sequels, for little evident reasons.

As a substance of fact, not a azygous drama astatine all, overmuch little a goofy comedy. And connected either the play oregon drama fronts, the pope decidedly could person chosen astatine slightest 1 flick acceptable successful his erstwhile cervix of the woods. Think “The Blues Brothers,” “Home Alone,” “The Untouchables,” “High Fidelity,” “Eight Men Out” oregon “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” (Think “Chicago,” for goodness’ sake.)

Pope Leo volition seemingly beryllium gathering Saturday with Hollywood types including, Variety reports, actors Monica Bellucci, Cate Blanchett, Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Viggo Mortensen and Chris Pine, positive directors Spike Lee, George Miller, Giuseppe Tornatore and Gus Van Sant.

Seems the pope “has expressed his tendency to deepen dialog with the World of Cinema, and successful peculiar with actors and directors, exploring the possibilities that creator creativity offers to the ngo of the Church and the promotion of quality values,” according to a connection obtained by CNN.

That sounds each good and good, and a idiosyncratic can’t truly spell incorrect with the movies connected the pope’s database — 2 of the 4 are champion representation Oscar winners, and the different 2 are champion representation nominees.

That said, let’s shed a tiny teardrop for the exclusion of “Bruce Almighty,” if lone due to the fact that Morgan Freeman could usage a small papal designation too.