Posted on 06/19/2002 8:05:06 AM PDT by Orual
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
When Megan Gaffey got her school ring last month, she said she took it as a sign that she belonged at Kellenberg Memorial High School. Yesterday, the honor student was officially told not to come back to the private Catholic school for her senior year after she refused to sing a medley of songs that she and her family consider blasphemous.
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I noticed that she was homeschooled for a while. There is no way she will attend Amityville HS. It is the total oppposite of Kellenberg and she will stick out like a sore thumb.
Frankly I like Jesus Christ Superstar and can see some people finding it way off the mark but its just a musical.
Now if the opera had portrayed Christ as being in love with her, the argument would have made more sense.
You don't like it, start your own 'regio'.
I don't suppose it matters that "Jesus Christ, Superstar" IS blasphemous and unfaithful to the Gospels? It is the pop-culture pseudo-Catholics who have started their own religion.
Show me in Catholic doctrine where Jesus slept with Mary Magdalene as JCSS implies?
Show me where Herod sings 'prove to me that you're no fool/walk across my swimming pool'. Don't go looking for 100% accuracy in movies, books, or TV. You have to have some suspension of disbelief DURING the performance and then do the analytical stuff later. Wondering if Judas as a tenor during a show lessons your enjoyment.
Show me where "Superstar" implies that. "I Don't Know How to Love Him" is Mary's song about how she should treat Jesus. I had the album right after it came out (London Cast Recording) and I've seen the stage show. I didn't get that implication. I can't recall if the movie gives that impression or not.
I'm not out to defend Jesus Christ Superstar but I don't recall that "implication." Perhaps you are remembering The Last Temptation of Christ where "Jesus" fantasizes about marrying Mary and having a family (BTW, I've not seen that one).
The girl may not be Catholic but she is certainly a better Christian than the modernist scum in charge of the school. By any conservative understanding of religious art, Jesus Christ Superstar is blasphemous, and it has no place whatsoever in a Catholic school.
A line must be drawn between the sacred and the profane. This is something that the school administrators are unwilling to do, but they merely follow the lead given by the degenerate episcopate of AmChurch during the past forty years.
Staging Superstar which is as insipid as it is irreverent, is a good preparation to accustom the Catholic youngsters to hearing the same crap at Mass. Yes, Magdaleine's little ditty "I don't know how to love Him" has been used at AmChurch liturgies since the interpreters of V-2 decided that rock-n-roll was superior to plainchant.
While the argument at the heart of this story has valid points to be made by both sides, the rejection of the moslem described above is a gloriously positive one.
Whatever I might think of the music of JCSS, I would NOT want to be paying tuition to a private school that allowed a demon-worshipper to attend it.
We may -for the time being at least- have to tolerate a moslem in a public school. Thank goodness that we don't have to tolerate them in a private school.
It's a waste of time to educate them anyway...
It's increasingly obvious that they are as impervious to reason as they are to decency.
How much geometry do they need to know to strap on a bomb and walk into a crowded bus or store?
When you're scrubbing their splattered brains off the wall does the part that knew about diagramming a sentence come off any easier?
I guess the point you are making is that if a Catholic school chooses to teach heresy, they have the right because they paid for it.
All righty, then.
Megan's parents decided that she would go to a Catholic school despite the fact that they were opposed to Catholic teachings. They obviously have strongly-held and strongly-expressed opinions, and like most kids her age, Megan shares and expresses those opinions. I have no doubt that she was "difficult in class."
And so both Megan's parents and the Marists at the school are faced with a problem -- what to do about a girl whose attitudes run toward working against the very things the school is trying to teach.
I place the blame on the parents for this one. They not only put their daughter in a school where she was bound to disagree with the the religious principles being taught; and they also transferred their own stiff-necked apprach to life to their child.
The only point I was making is that there is no implication that Jesus sleeps with Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar.
It comes as close as the times would allow. "I Don't Know How to Love Him" is not a song about platonic love. Unrequited maybe, but definitely not platonic.
No, it's the song of a woman who never really knew what real love is, who didn't know how to respond to the love from the Messiah. It's actually a very honest song of a woman saying "He treats me differently than everyone else. I don't know how to respond to Him..."
I think it's very believable that Mary (the Mary in JCS is a combination of characters) would have had some of those thoughts. But, the thoughts are Mary's and not those of Jesus.
Maybe so, maybe not. Still feels like do-it-yourself theology to me.
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