Posted on 11/29/2006 8:22:47 PM PST by paulat
Pregnant star misses Vatican gala
Keisha Castle-Hughes has said she is too busy to attend the premiere The teenage star of a film about the Nativity is missing its Vatican premiere because she is expecting a baby with her 19-year-old partner. New Zealander Keisha Castle-Hughes, 16, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Whale Rider, plays Mary.
Pope Benedict XVI will also be unable to attend the Vatican's first premiere due to his forthcoming visit to Turkey.
A member for the Papal Council for Culture said the actress was expected to play her part well, not be a saint.
The actress, who is expecting a child in spring, said that she was "thrilled" at the news and had made the film "in a state of grace".
Biblical tale
The premiere of The Nativity Story, expected to be attended by 7,000 people, will take place in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, which is used for Sunday masses when they are not held outside in St Peter's Square.
The film was shot in southern Italy and Morocco
The film was shot partly in Matera, Italy, the same location used for Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ.
It recounts the Biblical tale from the Angel Gabriel's announcement to Mary that she will give birth to Jesus, to the visit of the three wise men to the new baby.
It has been produced by the US-based production company New Line Cinema, which was also involved in the Lord of The Rings trilogy, and will open in the US and Italy next month.
Oscar Isaac, a 30-year-old US actor, plays Joseph opposite Castle-Hughes.
Born in Australia, Castle-Hughes moved to New Zealand aged four with her Maori mother and Australian father. She became a New Zealand citizen in 2001.
Proceeds of the premiere will go towards the building of a school in the northern Israeli village of Mughar which Druze, Muslim and Christian children will attend
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Agreed. It's a sad trend we see today, not only in young women, but in older women who should know better. Marriage is the best place to raise children.
Well, that may be so in the states, but this is the BBC (a British News agency) reporting about a New Zealand girl with Australian heritage. No mention of America anywhere. European-English usually refers to non-wed couples as "partners."
Murdering a preborn baby is terrible, of course.
That said, being a single mother out of wedlock is not best for the child. God made us to live in family -- a father and a mother. Do you disagree? Do you think it's ideal that this young girl fornicate and produce a bastard who will grow up without a "normal" family? Strange that you're so dogmatic against abortion and so pro-premarital sex.
Of course God doesn't make mistakes. This girl (and her boyfriend), however, DID make a mistake.
I don't see how you draw the conclusion that I'm pro-abortion when I say that premarital fornication is wrong, and that it's less than ideal for a baby to grow up without a "normal" family consisting of a father and a mother.
Strange thinking....
Yes, the real Mary never would have been pregnant at 16 - she would have waited until after college. ;)
Funny how we have to defend such elementary concepts on FR. You'd think Freepers would naturally understand that abortion is wrong and that having a child out of wedlock is not ideal.
No, you didn't. This story was posted yesterday or the day before, although it was a different article. You didn't break the story.
You managed to ruin the thread, though, with a whole lot of completely unnecessary name-calling. Kudos.
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It does seems odd, but there are how many members of FR?
Enough for a fair amount of diversity, although we do tend to share certain ideals for the most part.
What's really sad is the obvious lack of rational thought in your responses.
Lefse for the holidays?
Nah, haven't you heard?
It's falafels and kebabs that rule the roose around here these days :-)
OK, I might be having some lefse. My mother ususally brings over some that she has baked.
Good stuff.
Good luck with the lefse-making weekend :-)
Cheers.
Yes, it technically means "illegitimate." And gay means "bright and pleasant". Do you go around wishing people a gay Christmas? Most of the time, when someone calls another person a bastard, he is not not referring to his parentage.
Single motherhood is not ideal, and sin is still sin. But labeling a baby with a derogatory name is just cruel and senseless. As for the mother and father, they may have sinned, but few people have been won to Christ or moved to repentence by being bludgeoned by mean-spirited Christians.
Bravo Chanticleer!! Excellent post!
Very well said.
I get sick of these "holier-than-thou" Freepers who seem to think that the way to drive someone to Christ is to call them names and insult them and their child.
Very well said, Chanticleer.
You're calling me "mean spirited" because I state that marriage is a good thing? Okay....
Not sure why we shouldn't attach a stigma to fornication and illegitimacy.
"Holier than thou"? Because I argue that abortion is wrong and that having a child out of wedlock is wrong as well? Is there no moral absolute? Is it wrong for me to believe that marriage is a good thing, and that having a child outside of marriage is not a good thing?
Odd that I'm accused of doing something wrong by holding that marriage is a good thing.
When reading the article you did not judge, you say.
But you find it appropriate to judge me because I hold that marriage is a good thing, and that marriage is the proper and right context in which to have a baby.
You *are* judging, my friend.
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