 Catholic Blog Title Ideas from Catholic Films: Effective
Blog Title Ideas Series (6 of 7)
Introduction
Searching for sources of inspiration and ideas to title a Catholic blog
makes you learn more than what you search for. In the past articles, we
examined five of these sources. If you explore these sources more thoroughly,
you are certain to discover insights. And insights generate even more ideas -
brighter ideas for better content development of a Catholic blog.
This sixth article in a series of seven will now explore Catholic
movies, documentaries, and short films (popularly packaged in DVDs), as
sources of inspiration and ideas for a Catholic blog title.
A picture is worth a thousand words
The rich imagery and symbolism that often accompanies the production of
a movie, adds greatly to the inspirational value which the movie can
provide for its viewers. If the popular saying tells us that "a picture is
worth a thousand words", then imagine the worth of a "moving picture" (movies,
documentaries, short films, videos). It can inspire and move us for the
better. It can enkindle in us good desires to aspire to a greater love of God
and neighbor. This is what pro-Catholic movies are really produced for: to
instill and form in the minds and hearts of its viewers a greater love for God
and the Catholic Church.
The titles and themes of Catholic movies
Below is a list of favorite movies and documentaries that can provide
ideas to title a Catholic blog. These films are familiar
to many Catholics and the titles can be edited and revised
to attract readers to a Catholic blog.
The movies and films are as follows:
- The Passion of the Saints (Discovery Channel documentary)
- Shoes of the Fisherman (movie)
- The Song of Bernadette (movie)
- A Man for All Seasons (movie)
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (documentary, narrated by Orson Welles)
- Brother Sun, Sister Moon (movie)
Editing and revising the movie titles
In the list given above, editing and revising some of the movie titles
can create a Catholic blog title which can remind the readers of the original
title from which it came from. For "The Passion of the Saints", it can be
edited and revised to "The Miracles of the Saints". This is blog title
can develop a blog with posts that develop the theme of an all-powerful
God who distributes the gift of working miracles among His faithful.
For a more socially-concerned Catholic blog, "The Song of Bernadette" can be
edited to "The Song of Unborn Children". This blog title has a disturbing
tone to it but it can clearly be a pro-life Catholic blog against abortion.
For Catholics who want to advocate the ethic of respecting life in all its
stages, "The Song of Unborn Children" can help create in its readers a
reverential fear of God.
For more reflective Catholic bloggers, "A Man for All Seasons" can be edited
and revised to "A Blog for All Seasons". This Catholic blog can be developed
into a well-rounded blog that includes humor, tragic stories, real-life
adventures, the joys and sorrows of life, and life stories in many stages
of human life. For those more liturgically-oriented bloggers, it could
be a Catholic blog that reflects on the liturgical readings for the liturgical
seasons of the Church: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and Ordinary Time.
Reflections can be also made for the special feasts and solemnities
celebrated for the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the saints.
The documentary "The Man Who Saw Tomorrow" can be edited to produce a
Catholic blog title such as "The Saints Who Saw Tomorrow". For Catholic
bloggers who want to have youth as their audience, this would be a very
interesting theme. The Catholic youth can be introduced to the lives of
the saints - those classes of saints who have been gifted to know something
about the future. Sister Lucia Dos Passos, (one of the seers of Fatima),
who will eventually be on the road to sainthood, can be one of the examples
for this blog. Most of the Catholic youth today can still relate to Sister
Lucia Dos Passos as the Fatima apparition is farely recent.
Movie titles as Catholic blog titles
Instead of editing and revising a Catholic movie title to create a
new title for a blog, the movie title can be kept intact, and a Catholic
blog can be produced that bears the theme of both the movie and the subjects
that were presented in the movie. Just don't forget to place the Creative
Commons License in your blog to assure the readers on the Web that the
blog is part of the creative and innovative work on the internet.
As an example, "Shoes of the Fisherman", can be a Catholic blog about the
papacy. It would be a very interesting writing project to venture upon.
Those who will choose this Catholic blog title will surely discover not
only the lives of the Popes in our time, but also the lives of the
great pope-saints and the not as saintly lives of popes in the
history of the Church.
The popular movie "Brother Sun, Sister Moon", can be an effective
Catholic blog about St. Francis, St. Clare, the history and development
of the Franciscan orders, and the lives of the many Franciscan saints.
Aside from the Benedictines, the Franciscan order is one of the
religious orders in the Church that has produced quite a number of saints.
Catholic film reviews
Aside from searching among movies, documentaries, short films and
videos, one can also compose a Catholic blog title that will make reviews
of pro-Catholic movies. For the more daring, they can also venture into
reviewing a few controversial films. But extra care and diligence in
writing is required here to make your reviews very objective and
constructive - without putting the Church in a bad light. The safest,
surest, and more modest direction is to make write-ups and positive reviews
of movies that are popularly judged as pro-Catholic. To have an idea of
what these pro-Catholic movies are, the National Catholic Register web
site lists down 100 of these pro-Catholic movies. To learn more about
these movies, you can check "
Top 100 Pro-Catholic
Movies".
Summary
Pro-Catholic movies are very inspiring and uplifting to the human
spirit. It can inspire well, and positively impress readers to move in
the direction of goodness and charity. Many of these pro-Catholic films
have become family favorites - favorites that are watched not only once,
but many times over. Let us therefore take the opportunity to source an
effective Catholic blog title from one of these popular pro-Catholic
movies, documentaries, short films, and videos.
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