Product Details

• Directors: James G. McCarthy
• Format: Closed-captioned
• Language: English
• Rated: Unrated
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lumen Productions
• Run Time: 54 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002HMKCC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,430 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Catholicism: Crisis of Faith goes to the heart of the question, "What is the cause of the present crisis in the church?" by investigating the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church from a biblical perspective. Follow the journey of devout Catholic clergy and laity who courageously faced a crisis of faith and emerged with a life changing experience of Jesus Christ.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does Not Even Get What Catholics Believe Right, February 4, 2010

By 

Craig W. Archdeacon "God Bless" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Catholicism: Crisis of Faith (VHS Tape)

I'd have a problem w/ Catholics too if they believed many of the things this video says they believe...but I am a Catholic, I know my faith, I welcome challenges and can say that this is a gross misrepresentation of what I believe.

This video was a shock to me because McCarthy didn't take the time to find out what Catholics really believe. It's only goal seemed to be Catholic bashing. It implied several things that we don't believe. Such as thinking a statue could make it stop raining, Mary being a co-saviour with Jesus (that's absolutely not anything like what we believe), that Jesus' sacrifice is not finished (we believe his sacrifice is once and for all), that we try to re-sacrifice him (he said "do this in memory of me), that we ommitted the second commandment at some point in time, that we worship statues like Romans did their gods ( we use statues only in the way God says is good in Numbers 21: 8-10, 2 Kings 18:4, 1 Kings 6: 23-36God isn't opposed to images when used for the proper purpose, only when worshipped as a God. I Chronicles 28:18 God ordained there be statues of Cherubim over the Arc of the Covenant. Galatians 3:1 has the Galatians looking at a crucifix.

I respect my Protestant friends who genuinely want to know what I believe and ask me, but this is an example of a person twisting what Catholics believe or not informing themselves. In a way, I'm honored Protestants took the time to watch something about my faith, but the problem is that this is not at all what we believe, and it never was. I know my faith, and this movie really doesn't.

If you really want to know what Catholics believe and why, I'd suggest any of these books. One of the most important questions we can ask is "what does the Bible say?"

Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic FaithNuts & Bolts: A Practical Guide for Explaining and Defending the Catholic Faith

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely Dishonest - And factually wrong, October 8, 2009

By 

Catholic Bryan (CT.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catholicism: Crisis of Faith (VHS Tape)

I have watched this erroneous video and I have also heard one of the priests who were interviewed in this documentary. I heard his side and what really happened. For instance, he who was taken way out of context... he was interviewed for long periods of time and then the tape only used short clips and spliced them together to make him sound ignorant about god and about his faith. They even asked him the 'same' question many times over and over again, making him repeat himself. So, frustrated after the 3rd, 4th, or 5th time, he answered, "I don't know what else to say", or "there's nothing I can add to that." At this point, the video producers take 'those' lines and insert them after juicy questions to make it seem like the priest has no answers and can't answer the objections... but that is not the truth of what happened. Rather, they put the priest in a bad light intentionally. It's very dishonest and unprofessional.
I have at least 3 typed pages of errors for this documentary, and they are horrendous. If you would like to see and know more, read on down below. If not, then I recommend quality Catholic, unbiased literature and Video. If you really want to know what Catholics believe, you can by the talk: "Why Be Catholic?" by Tim Staples, or can read "Catholicism Vs. Fundamentalism" by Karl Keating. These are truthful representations of Catholicism from an unbiased point of view.

FOR THOSE WHO CARE AND WANT MORE..... Here are a couple of the major errors in this video. There are many more:

#1. One of my biggest problems: The documentary that I saw stated, "Catholics have confused Mary's role with Christ's," and then shows "Mary" nailed to a cross. This is a 'huge' issue. The person on the cross in question is not Mary, but a Saint from Ecuador whose father actually did crucify her. I have "heard" that this part has been taken out of later videos, yet the fact that this grave error was in there in the first place is both concerning and disheartening. This is such a huge blunder, and it seriously damages the credibility of the documentary.

#2. It was stated that Catholics don't use St. Christopher any more, that they just scratched him as a saint. This is not true. St. Christopher's spot on the Roman calendar has been updated by more recent and more well known saints, but that's not the same as discarding him, saying that he's no longer a saint. Big difference.

#3. Another point made in the documentary: "The belief that there was a change in the bread was not invented until 1215 AD. - This was the first time the church sanctioned that theory?"
1215? There is unanimous consent of the true presence of the Eucharist back until the earliest days of Christianity, certainly before 1215 AD. this is just flat out wrong. 2 examples among countless:
St. Athanasius (373 A.D.): But after the great and wonderful prayers have been completed, then the bread is become the body, and the wine the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. ... This bread and wine, so long as the prayers and supplications have not taken place, remain simply what they are. But, after the great prayers and supplications have been sent forth, the Word comes down into the bread and wine - and thus is His body confected.
Justin Martyr (Around 150AD)- "We call this food Eucharist, and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true and who has been washed in the washing which is for the remission of sins and for regeneration [i.e., has received baptism] and is thereby living as Christ enjoined. For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nurtured, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus." (emphasis mine)

And there are many more ...

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not good at all, June 4, 2008

By 

Insane Irish "Shan" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Catholicism: Crisis of Faith (VHS Tape)

Too much propaganda for me. If the interviews were presented unedited it would make this film completely different. There are also mistakes made that the producer has acknowledged but refused to remove them. Those who watch this should take it upon themselves to really look into the claims made about Catholicism.