"....my faith will never waver because of people who are weak in the flesh." Wahlberg adds of his religious lifestyle, "Being a Catholic and also being a husband and a parent definitely makes me think a little bit longer and harder about the (movie) choices I make, but being an artist I've got to be able to have the freedom to try things that I want to do. So I just weigh those decisions up. Everything comes in to play."
I don’t agree with his politics, but he appears to be a devoted husband and father.
We can respect him for that.
Ted wasn’t that bad of a movie. I enjoyed it.
Homosexuals?
Good for Mark.
bkmk
hahahaha... OMG that is some kind of funny
A funny story about Wahlberg. He had a part in a movie that had several real martial artists in it, and there was a scene where he was at the top of a hill, running down it to escape, when one of the martial artist villains pushes a car after him.
He was supposed to run for a while, then dive behind a big rock for his own safety, since the car was uncontrolled. However, the car was balanced so precariously, and the martial artist was so strong, he basically *threw* the car after him.
Wahlberg later commented that the look of abject terror on his face was not acting. The director loved the take, fortunately.
I don’t agree with his politics, or his stance on gun-control, but I still think he’s a great actor and a real “hottie!” I’ve read some of his interviews, and he seems to be a man dedicated to his family and his hometown. He also did behind the scenes (ie. without a lot of publicity) visits to the military in Afghanistan and he supports our troops.
Yeah, and I remember his early days as “Marky Mark” too. I read recently where he was having some of his tattoos removed and had his kids accompany him as he went to the doctor so they could see/hear his pain—he doesn’t want them doing what he did! I had to smile at his obvious “growth and maturity” in transitioning from punkster to actor to respectable husband/dad. I bet he’s a neat guy...
Enough already! I feel like I am living in an alternate universe. After reading the comments, I realize that there are still a majority of people who think the church has done absolutely nothing to change their policies in screening seminarians, reporting abuses, removing the culprits, apologizng, etc.. I expect better from Freepers who ought to know better.
Because the RC Church is so huge, and because it has a hierarchy, the abuses of which 80% of the cases were attributable to - homosexual clergy with teenage boys, they have been broadcast all over and over and over and over again, and again, and again!!!!! They are not typically pedophilia but homosexual in nature. The fact that this is still being called Pedophilia is harmful to our youth, See my comments below about the Boy Scouts!!
Yes the abuses were horrible; Yes, they should have been stopped and punished and removed from the clergy; Yes the victims deserved attention and apology from the bishops, etc, and there was no excuse for the many years that nothing was done - which should have been done case by case immediately. The church has learned its lesson, although there is still some who are in denial. However, Pope Benedict has been excellent in cleaning out the church of many bad bishops - who were either homosexuals themselves or were afraid to act and intimidated by the enormity of the problem. Thank God that many seminaries have been totally restructured and candidates for prieshood are now being screened very well. The newly ordained priests are terrific, at least the ones I have met in the past 5 years are very dedicated and holy men.
HAS SOCIETY LEARNED ANYTHING FROM THIS DEBACLE?
NO! Harping continually against the RC Church will not correct the problems in the general society. The fact is that the RC church has adressed their problems, and hopefully will not have new cases anymore or will be handled better in the future.
BUT, WHAT ABOUT THE BOY SCOUTS? WHAT ABOUT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
The Gay Lobby is trying to force the Boy Scouts to accept Homosexuals as troop leaders. It is to the Gay Lobby’s advantage to continue to lable the Catholic Church problems as Pedophilia when it was actually primarily homosexual in nature.
As for the schools, is no one concerned about the constant drum of cases whereby teachers are abusing our children from small kids to high schoolers? Both male and female teachers! Is it because these institutions are less easy targets than the RCC Church?
If we as a society close our eyes and only keep yammering about a problem that has been resolved and then look the ohter way at other abusers, how is that helping our children?
Nothing puts a smile on Satan’s face like Christian cannibalism. No mercy. No grace. Just raw, hate filled holier-than-thou.
He’s right but call it what it is
Homosexual pedophilia or pederasty