Actor Jon Voight on How His Catholic Upbringing Influenced His Life | EWTN News Nightly

Published: Aug 30, 2024 Duration: 00:05:36 Category: Education

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conservative collegiate students in the country are found at a Catholic school in California . The study says Thomas Aquinas College is ranked number one for most conservative student body . Princeton Review ranks nearly 400 U.S. colleges in several categories based on responses to student surveys. Tak, as it is known by students and alumnus, is a small liberal arts school in Santa Paula, California. Students adhere to a dress code and faculty are called tutors , not professors. Several other Catholic schools also made the list for most conservative students, with the University of Dallas at number six and Assumption University in Massachusetts ranked 20th. As we mentioned yesterday, a movie about the life of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, hits theaters today. Reagan stars Dennis Quaid , Penelope Ann Miller and Academy Award winner Jon Voight. Yesterday, Voight discussed the movie and why he thinks it is perfectly timed to be seen leading into November's election in part two. Tonight, he tells us what he hopes viewers learn from the film and discusses a very important role from earlier in his career and in one of your costars in Reagan. David Henry, Catholic actor as well. He says he hopes the movie provides a message of unity to the audience. Talk to us about that and what you hope that folks get from seeing this film. >> Yeah, well, you're seeing a man who had tremendous grace and really was a, you know, a did the job awfully well. And yet you're seeing how much pressure there was on him continuously. The difficulty of being the president of the United States. Tremendous, tremendous pressure on a daily basis and how he handled it. There are there are lots of messages here , there's I think, what he was referring to was there's a sequence where tip O'Neill, played by a wonderful actor. And Reagan have a coming together after the assassination attempt, and they say a prayer together, and it shows you people from different parts of the aisle, you know , coming together in friendship, meanwhile, disagreeing on many things politically. So that's that's part of the message as well. >> John, before I let you go , I have to ask you about this. We all know that you played Pope John Paul the second at one point and being raised Catholic. And I know your mother was very devout. What did that mean to you? >> What does it mean to me that I play John Paul two? And my mother was devout. I think my mother was upstairs, you know, very, very happy that I was attempting to play John Paul two thought he thought that would straighten me out a little bit. And perhaps it did had it had a tremendous influence on me, actually , the I had had a great regard for John Paul II and John Paul II , of course, and Margaret Thatcher and Nancy Reagan were part of the greatness of that presidency with Ronald Reagan. So John Paul two, you know, he also had an assassination attempt and they were they had a kind of a link between them. And those personalities made a great difference. And, you know, and brought about the end of the Soviet Union together . So, so there was a lot of a lot of things about the, the portrait of John Paul two that gave me an insight into Ronald Reagan as well. >> Yeah, very special relationship that they had there. John, before I let you go, anything else you'd like to share with our audience ? >> Well, I just would like to share the fact that we have a nice film out there that that people will really take heart from. And enjoy, and, and that's a bit of a blessing. And that when I say a blessing, I say the fact that this came at this time, I believe was for foreordained. You know, I see God's hand in many things and I see it in this , this picture became , had a difficult birth because of the length of time that we had to work on it. And and things didn't seem to go right for a long time . But the fact was that all of that led to the fact , that it was postponed to be coming out at a perfect time . So I think it's I think it's, we look for these little things that are happening and say, well , God's hand is in this. I I say that to the Catholic audience, you know , that's my contribution to being on this particular show and talk to the Catholic audience that God's hand is everywhere, and we and sometimes we just we forget about that. >> Absolutely. John, thank you so much for coming on and talking to us about this film. We really appreciate it. God bless you. >> God bless you.

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