What Was I Saying About Schism, Part III
"Brokeback Lent"... from a "CATHOLIC" priest?
Yeah, you read it right... a "Brokeback Lent". And coming from a Jesuit (what a shocker, huh?).
From LifeSite.net;
The latest example has Father John Allan Loftus, S.J. the Director of the Jesuit Urban Center at the Boston Church of the Immaculate Conception recommending a “Brokeback Lent.” In his homily for Ash Wednesday, March 1, Loftus urged congregants to watch the film. “I suspect many in this community have already seen Brokeback Mountain,” he said. “If not see it; if you have, see it again and reflect on the consequences of not being interiorly free, the consequences of not knowing who you really are and want to become, the tragic consequences and subsequent devastation that comes from only living in a ‘pretend’ world.”
With shepherds like him, who needs wolves?
"Brokeback Lent"... from a "CATHOLIC" priest?
Yeah, you read it right... a "Brokeback Lent". And coming from a Jesuit (what a shocker, huh?).
From LifeSite.net;
The latest example has Father John Allan Loftus, S.J. the Director of the Jesuit Urban Center at the Boston Church of the Immaculate Conception recommending a “Brokeback Lent.” In his homily for Ash Wednesday, March 1, Loftus urged congregants to watch the film. “I suspect many in this community have already seen Brokeback Mountain,” he said. “If not see it; if you have, see it again and reflect on the consequences of not being interiorly free, the consequences of not knowing who you really are and want to become, the tragic consequences and subsequent devastation that comes from only living in a ‘pretend’ world.”
With shepherds like him, who needs wolves?
posted by Kevin Whiteman at
7:13 PM
2 Comments:
I think I see the point he's getting at that we should evaluate ourselves and not try to hide the sins in our lives and by only admitting to them and then confessing can we really free ourselves.
But, there's got to be better movies out there that show that type of symbolism.
I agree that homilies like this do raise the question: "In what sense do I believe the same faith as this priest?"
But it's Father Altier who gets shut down.
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