Catholic Bishops Order 'Golden Compass' Review Off Web Site

Baltimore Sun ^ | December 12, 2007 | Chris Kaltenbach

[icwhatudo]

"The Archdiocese of Baltimore is grateful that the Conference withdrew the review because it caused much confusion in the Catholic Community," Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien said in an e-mailed statement. "From all reports, the review failed to adequately warn parents about the movie's widely recognized dark themes and anti-Catholic imagery." . . . "We saw this thing exploding over the weekend," Donohue said. "It was just a matter of time before they had to take it down."

[icwhatudo]

Keep an eye on the new Bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Finally a conservative is taking on (and kicking out) the liberals that infest this area.

[AndyTheBear]

There are two kinds of bishops. The ones that stay on the light squares, and the ones that stay on the dark ones.

[AndyTheBear]

The movie, which opened Friday, was the top-grossing film of the weekend, earning $25.8 million. But New Line Cinema, which produced the film that stars Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, had hoped it would open much bigger -- perhaps on par with 2005's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, a church-friendly, live-action fantasy that earned $65.6 million its opening weekend.

Glad old Clives beat Pullman on this one.

[Cicero]

If any place can use a strong bishop, it’s the corrupt city of Baltimore. Good to hear about him.

[GAB-1955]

Ours is a light square bishop. Except he’s a District President. Jon Diethenthaler is his name.

[GAB-1955]

Yep. God’s Other White Bread.

[SunkenCiv]

Cinema nice thank you note.

[StarCMC]

We have a great one here in St. Louis, too. He pissed a lot of people off as soon as he as he was appointed.

[icwhatudo]

If thats the sign of a good one, then we got one! LOL

Its fun to see these entrenched liberal catholics go shrieking as they are pushed from power.

[StarCMC]

Yep!

[DesScorp]

Good. A Catholic bishop that demands that Catholic organizations act...Catholic. What a concept, eh?

[AdmSmith]

I liked the movie, but Magisterium is not the Catholic Church it resembles the Russian Orthodox Church. There are as well other similarities to the Soviet Union and the guards that spoke Russian.

[livius]

I think the movie makers were afraid to make it too obviously the Catholic Church (for example, showing the dome of St. Peter’s or some such thing). The Russian Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church have fundamentally the same theology, but the Russian Orthodox Church is relatively small and weak politically and in no position to cause much trouble for the studio.

[livius]

Actually, I think there’s a third type: one that tries to stay on the lines between the squares. A lot of the bishops aren’t ravingly bad themselves, they’re just weak and easily pressured by those agressive bishops on the dark squares, so they try to steer the famous middle course. And we all know what lukewarmness gets you!

That said, I’m glad to hear about O’Brien. Catholicism in Baltimore has been in bad shape for decades now, which is pretty sad, considering the historical importance of the see.

[Straight Vermonter]

Unless I have misunderstood your post (always possible) I think you may be a little confused about what the Magesterium is.

http://www.ewtn.com/faith/Teachings/chura4.htm

[AdmSmith]

Thanks, I guess that it is a mixture, but in the movie it is Orthodox Christian iconography. (I have not read the books.)

[AndyTheBear]

But those aren’t really bishops. They are pawns.