Recently, in anticipation of seeing No Time to Die (2021) in the cinema, I re-watched all Daniel Craig’s James Bond films. Ten-odd hours of shooting, car chases and gratuitous close-ups later, I had learnt something new about Bond – he’s Catholic. Or, at least, he comes from a family of Catholics. In Skyfall (2012), Bond and M travel back to his family home – on bleakest Scottish moorland – to lure a villain into a fireball trap. Luckily there is means of escape before the house explodes, via an old Priest Hole that leads out onto the moor, emerging near a private chapel that must be part of the estate. All of this implies that Bond’s family were recusants, secret Catholics during the persecutions, and that therefore Bond is at least culturally Catholic. Digging a little deeper we find the scene in For Your Eyes Only (1981) where Roger Moore’s Bond goes to confession. Admittedly it’s in a Greek Orthodox Church, and is a liaison with Q; but nevertheless he clearly knows the form, entering the box and intoning “Forgive me father for I have sinned,” solemnly. (“That’s putting it mildly, 007,” Q replies). All of which got me thinking: are there other unlikely Catholics, operating in front of our very eyes on the silver screen, their faith hidden by the vastness of the plot but lurking behind, there to see for anyone who cares to search?