so, will the good guys win or will there be a civil war or persecution?

Father Stu

 Tea At Trianon links to a longer article about the priest who inspired the film.

a longer article at the Pillar: a regular guy who had a conversion after an accident (in the movie, he has a vision of Mama Mary) and decides to become a priest. However, he developed an illness that caused slow physical deterioration but after accepting this as a way to serve God, the bishop decided to ordain him, despite his disability.

The movie of course lets out a lot of the details, and in fact is too jerky, moving from one thing to another.

the beginning stresses the bad boy stuff, but once he got religion, the plot goes too fast, so we don't really appreciate his struggles to accept his disability

I didn't like the Wahlberg interpretation of the character, and ironically Mel Gibson steals every scene he is in.

so was he a saint? Of course he is. Will he ever be canonized? Probably not. And does the movie show us a lesson about Christianity? Yes: The value of suffering united with the suffering of Jesus.

we know this in the Philippines (hence the Black Nazarene procession, where this is the theme), but in the west, you are more likely to see films glamourizing killing the sick out of misplaced compassion...Sigh

A Rabbi sees that everything going on has gone on before

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This week we read about Korach, a great man who destroyed himself and those around him because he was jealous of Moshe. Of course, the “narrative” he presented was quite different. Korach accused Moshe of exalting himself over the people and giving special treatment to cronies. How dare he? All the people were holy! Equality!

Korach's solution? Simple. He would exalt himself over the people and give special treatment to cronies, just to make sure nothing like this could ever happen again.

The most common buzzword in political campaigns...

This week we read about Korach, a great man who destroyed himself and those around him because he was jealous of Moshe. Of course, the “narrative” he presented was quite different. Korach accused Moshe of exalting himself over the people and giving special treatment to cronies. How dare he? All the people were holy! Equality!

Korach's solution? Simple. He would exalt himself over the people and give special treatment to cronies, just to make sure nothing like this could ever happen again.

Of course, they never make anything better, at least for you. That would defeat the purpose. If everyone were content and in charge of their own destiny, they wouldn't need to enrich and empower con artists to save them. People like Korach can only get ahead by convincing people to be miserable, and keeping them in a constant state of discontent. They make machlokes – they divide people against themselves and each other.

This is why women in secular Western lands are more “liberated” than ever before in history, yet also the angriest, most perpetually discontent women in history. The day these women are allowed to be at peace with themselves and others is the day all the activists who get rich and powerful abusing them go out of business.

The homosexuals, crossdressers, and various other alphabet “communities” are doomed to suffer the same fate. The social justice warriors pretending to “fight for their rights” are their worst enemies, too. They too will be used and abused, just like the underdog women, who will grow old and die alone, bitter, disillusioned, and undefined.

anti pope stuff

 

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and then there is this from the Acton institute

https://www.acton.org/religion-liberty/volume-35-number-1-2/us-bishops-and-tweet-heard-round-world

In the context of encouraging ordinary Catholics to involve themselves in the synodal process launched by Pope Francis to engage in reflection on the challenges facing the Catholic Church today, someone with access to the USCCB Twitter feed tweeted: “Here are seven attitudes we can all adopt as we continue our synodal journey together. Which one inspires you the most? Let us know in the comments below.” The attitudes listed were: innovative outlook, inclusivity, open-mindedness, listening, accompaniment, co-responsibility, and dialogue. ...

 

To say that Catholic Twitter-World was unhappy at this strange mixture of managerial-corporate speak and sentimental-humanitarian babble was an understatement. It erupted with replies like “Who wrote this spiritual guidance, Nabisco Corp?” and “We’re not a Fortune 500 company, we are literally the body of Christ.” “Is this entire synod,” one tweeter wrote, “being run by human resources interns?”

Why, others pointed out, did the attitudes say nothing about faithfulness to and proclamation of the Christian faith, or commitment to the teachings of the Church? Actress Patricia Heaton tweeted the following: “How about you adopt this attitude: ‘Christ shed his blood on the cross to save you, so attend with an attitude of repentance, humility, gratitude, joy and worship. Let your lips be full of praise for your savior Jesus.’ Or ‘innovative outlook’ I guess…”

In a similar manner, the former atheist, Christian convert, and now Catholic author Leah Libresco, tweeted: “If you need 7 . . . The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations.”