Jewish actor converts to Catholicism: the Virgin Mary ‘is my most beautiful love’

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/amp/news/252786/jewish-actor-converts-to-catholicism-the-virgin-mary-is-my-most-beautiful-love ^ | November 10, 2022

[lowbridge]

The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh, beloved in France, announced his conversion to the Catholic faith, a process in which he says the Virgin Mary played a crucial role.

Elmaleh, 51, was the partner of Charlotte Casiraghi, the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, with whom they have a son named Rafael.

His conversion to Catholicism is depicted in his new film, “Reste un peu,” (“Stay a while”).

The Jewish actor, who according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo will take the name of Jean-Marie when he is baptized, has studied theology in Paris, and in 2019 he participated in a musical in London about St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary who saw Our Lady of Lourdes.

Elmaleh told the French newspaper Le Figaro that “the Virgin Mary is my most beautiful love” and expressed his surprise that in France the “vast majority of Catholics don’t live their faith openly.”

As a child, he recounted in the interview, he entered a church and saw an image of the Mother of God.

“It wasn’t a vision, just a simple statue, but I was petrified. I began to cry and hid for fear of being discovered by my family, for fear of curses and superstition. I kept it a secret for my entire childhood,” he recalled.

[grey_whiskers]

If it is not recorded, then it is SPECULATION.

You're lying.

[Elsie]

...the written Word of God?

This didn't get very much respect upthread.

[grey_whiskers]

DISPROVE IT.

Using facts; not 1500-years-post-Incarnation man-made rules.

[Elsie]

...but I don't presume to know *why* He left it around in that condition.

I don't even know if Jesus showed up naked when He appeared to Thomas.

It seems He left the tomb that way.

[Elsie]

..Protestants can’t even all agree on ...

So true.

They ARE funny that way.

I'm glad there are no differences of opinions or splits in Catholicism.

[Elsie]

That’s a keen observation.

I wonder if the mod would agree with you?

[Elsie]

This must have been before you change from (?) to RCC.

[Elsie]

Sure have. Great theological truth in his writings.

[Elsie]

‘Tis hard to disprove an assumption.

[grey_whiskers]

You wrote in Post #258

(Entire post cut-and-pasted):

I don't care what people THINK could or could not have happened.

If it is not recorded, then it is SPECULATION.

And yes I wrote in Post 261: "You're lying."

Your assertion, your rules.

Except one of the other non-Catholics said Post #220 that "No one has said His mother was not allowed to touch or mourn, or even following close by when He was taken to the tomb. "

And you didn't accuse HIM of speculation.

So were you lying?

Or trolling?

Or being bombastic?

Or putting your foot in your mouth without thinking it all the way through?

[grey_whiskers]

This must have been before you change from (?) to RCC.

I think it was high school.

[MHGinTN]

Yo9ur Catholic mind is twisted. The comment I made was not, by logic rules, a speculation! Why are you so set on trying to have Elsie and me go at each other? (Now that is speculation, as an example.)

Your reasoning is twisted. How long have the catholiciism fairies been programming you? ... And you owe Elsie an apology for calling hi a liar. In the many years I have read his posts I have never detected a lie. You are merely a bitter Catholic accuser.

[Elsie]

If it is not recorded, then it is SPECULATION.

I stand by this.

I think someone said, upthread, prove me wrong.

[Elsie]

If it is not recorded, then it is SPECULATION.

I stand by this.

I think someone said, upthread, "Prove me wrong."

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speculation

 

spĕk″yə-lā′shən

noun

1. Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.
2. A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture.
3. Contemplation or consideration of a subject; meditation.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

[grey_whiskers]

Ok, smart-ass.

Did Jesus ever go to the bathroom?

[Elsie]

Why are you so set on trying to have Elsie and me go at each other?

Yeah!

We don't agree on every little detail,but we air OUR dirty laundry in PRIVATE mail.

We are SOLIDLY united in the OPEn fourm!

[Elsie]

Is this an invitation?

[Elsie]

In other news; cute kitties on your homepage.

I ended up with about 17 gray barn cats a few years ago, starting with a lone, itty-bitty boy the grandkids named Tiger.

He caught mice for two years then discovered girls.

Now I am almost catless as the mamma gray and her three black babies have been reduced to just one lonely black female.

[MHGinTN]

LOL

[grey_whiskers]

Thank for for pouring a thimble full of cold water on the maelstrom of this thread.

Not enough, of course, but the effort is appreciated.