[beckett]

Well, Ebert believes he is (as he occasionally mentions in his reviews over the years).

Can you document that? I have never heard him mention his own faith, although I have read his work both on politics (he is far left, by the way, not "liberal") and the arts. When he reviewed Ben Affleck's Dogma last year he delighted in its anti-Catholic bias.

As I mentioned, Ebert (Reinhold Timme) is of germanic descent, and may well have Catholic ancestors, but, given the overall cultural vibe he puts out, I would be amazed to learn that he is a believing, church-going Catholic.

[RightWingAtheist]

Reinhold TImme is not Ebert's real name; it is the pseudonym he used for Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens. It would have been rather incongrous of him to use his real name on the film right after he won the Pulitzer.

[egarvue]

Click on the link and go to Ebert and Roeper's review, or you can get it here http://tvplex.go.com/buenavista/ebertandroeper/today.html and listen to the audio of their reivew.

I have a hard time thinking of Ebert as a Christian, but consistently in the review both Ebert and Roeper (who write left-leaning columns for the Chicago Sun-Times when not reviewing movies) in so many words give a witness to the Gospel, that Christ died for our sins. You have to hear it to believe it, my jaw was on the floor. The only thing that I can think of is that the movie is way more powerful than it even appears.

[Aquinasfan]

I would be amazed to learn that he is a believing, church-going Catholic.

I'm pretty sure that he has a Catholic background. He may even have considered the priesthood at one time. But he seems to me to be a typical '60s, self-hating, PC "Catholic."