Christianity Is Catholic: Difference between revisions

This trope doesn't seem to apply to [[The Western|Westerns]], where any minister (or "preacher") will generally be a black-coated Evangelical Lutheran or Methodist type, when he isn't a Quaker or a Mormon. However, if the film shows the padre of a [[Useful Notes/Mexico|Mexican]] village, this trope will be played straight. It may also appear as part of an [[Establishing Shot]] for other traditionally Catholic places such as Italy or France. Black churches are almost always depicted as Baptist or Pentecostal (although some of the earliest black Americans in colonial times were Catholic/Voodoo practitioners from the French West Indies), as are white [[Deep South|Southern]] churches (the one exception being [[New Orleans]], home to the largest Catholic diocese in the US). And, of course, the ''upper-class'' [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant]], usually residing in the tonier precincts of [[Hollywood New England]] and belonging to a sufficiently venerable "mainline" church, is a stock character of long standing.