Soon, Stuart has been baptized, made his confession and taken Communion. On the cusp of marrying Carmen, which is what all this was supposed to be about, Stuart decides that he wants to be a priest.

Mark Wahlberg as Stuart Long in a scene from “Father Stu.” It’s a remarkable story, but “Father Stu” is a broad, somewhat brutish film.

The story is based on the life of boxer-turned-priest Stuart Long, who passed away at the age of 50 and had a troubled past before coming to faith.

Mark Wahlberg plays real-life boxer turned priest Stuart Long in “Father Stu.” And for Wahlberg, the story is personal. After an injury ends Long’s amateur boxing career, he meets Carmen, a ...

Inspired by the true story of the late Stuart Long — an agnostic “pugilist with a criminal record,” as he’s described in the film, who became an unlikely Catholic priest after developing a ...

Mark Wahlberg has been trying to mount a biopic on boxer-turned-priest Father Stuart Long for at least six years. Now, however, thanks to help from above – or at the very least, Malibu – it ...

Father Stu? He’s not a regular priest, he’s a cool priest. A tough priest. A priest who swears (a lot), a priest with a history of boozing and boxing. That’s the story told by the film’s ...

While the true story of hell-raising amateur boxer turned Catholic priest Stuart Long didn’t exactly pack them in during spring's Holy Week premiere, its curse-scrubbed, PG-13 version—semi ...