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
"Attach a stigma to the mother..."
Oh, please, lets not do that. All that will do is not only have people tossing the words "bastard" around, but then "slut" and "whore" too.
MM
You're right - I was trying to distinguish between the mother and the child in terms of where the blame should lie, but yes, it isn't cool to stigmatize anyone.
Yeah, God forbid anyone ever be made to feel ashamed of bad behavior.
:o) Thank you.
BTW: post #131 was dead on. Nice job.
MM
Convincing someone to feel ashamed of bad behavior will NOT be accomplished by calling them names.
MM
Then perhaps you will enlighten me, since (silly me) I am evidently laboring under a misapprehension.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting those statistics that show unwed births rising, rising, rising over the past few decades.
Maybe I'm attaching too much weight to the value of a mother and a father with enough education to make enough money to support their children.
It's possible I'm seeing a correlation where none exists, when I observe the surely unrelated facts of rising single motherhood and rising incarceration rates.
You've never been a teenage girl, have you?
Calling a teenage girl names can make her ashamed of anything.
Well, just damn, sounds like you have everything all figured out...
However, we were talking about name calling and people having shame and embarrassment for bad behavior..I believe thats where you put you two cents in and I responded.
No one here has said that having a child at 16 or any age without being married is right but it happens none the less and labeling or calling that child a "bastard" or the mother a "slut" or a "whore" doesnt rectify the problem it only shows ignorance and judgement...And the last time I checked, there is one and one alone that is required to judge..and it aint you.
MM
Ok.. ready? have a seat.
I have been a teenage girl and I can do one better, I was a 16 year old girl that was pregnant and ALL the insults in the world wouldnt have changed that.
MM
You win.
The best things a parent can do for a teenage girl is give her stability in a home, knowledge of God's laws, respect for herself, hope for her future, and reasonable boundaries. Society should support those things. But when someone stumbles into sin, the best anyone of us can do is to help pick them up, dust them off, point them in the right direction, and walk beside them on the way. Saying "You Fool! You stumbled!" accomplishes little.
Which I find ironic that she is being nominated for a movie called 'Whale Rider'.
I AM! You should not have any sense that I'm condemning an innocent child! Come on -- that's ridiculous!
Now let it go. Sheesh!
Psssstt... the "guy" is a girl. :o)
MM
Maybe I'm attaching too much weight to the value of a mother and a father with enough education to make enough money to support their children.
It's possible I'm seeing a correlation where none exists, when I observe the surely unrelated facts of rising single motherhood and rising incarceration rates.
And your solution is to insult the people who don't bring up a child in the way that you agree with?
I didn't use the term "little bastard." You've got some serious issues that can't be addressed via FR. If you look at my initial post, I am saying that the situation is bad for the child, and that the baby's mother has made an unfortunate decision.
Why are you so pro-illegitamacy? Why so anti-marriage? Go to DU if you don't feel comfortable with the concept that having a baby out of wedlock is less than ideal.
"Her baby is a bastard."
Hmmmm, youre right..Sorry Stone, he's right, he didnt say "little bastard", just bastard.
MM
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