Why NACHO LIBRE Is Peak Catholic Representation

Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez was born on May 9, 1945, in Hidalgo, as the sixteenth of seventeen children. At 22, while struggling with addiction, he pursued theological training in Rome and Spain. He taught philosophy and history at Roman Catholic universities in Mexico before becoming a secular priest. He founded an orphanage for 270 children but struggled to get funding. Inspired by two 1963 Mexican films about a priest who wrestles to support his orphanage, “Tormenta En El Ring” and “El Señor Tormenta”, Gutiérrez decided to become a masked luchador to support the orphanage financially. Wrestling under the name, Fray Tormenta or Friar Storm, Benítez would go on to have a two decade long career in the ring. In 2006, Jack Black teamed up with Jared Hess, the director of Napoleon Dynamite, to create a film that was loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta titled “Nacho Libre”.

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