Posted on 02/09/2010 6:42:24 AM PST by marshmallow
Losing her religion Anne Hathaway left the Catholic Church after her brother opened up about being gay. "The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out," says the actress. "Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother?" So what religion is Anne now? "I'm nothing," she admits. "F- it, I'm forming. I'm a work in progress."
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Hathaway began a career transition with supporting role in Brokeback Mountain in 2005.
“Love the sinner; hate the sin.”
There was no reason for her to leave her Catholic faith.
“Love the sinner; hate the sin.”
Just because her brother chooses to sin, does not mean that she and her family need to sin or leave the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
amen. I’m bummed to know I’ll never end up sitting next to her at a parish pancake breakfast now....
Hathaway was raised a Catholic with what she considered “really strong values,” and has stated she wanted to be a nun during her childhood.
However, at the age of fifteen she decided not to become a nun after learning that her brother, Michael, was gay.
She has stated that she is a non-denominational Christian because she has not “found the religion” for her.
Christ did say Faith in Him will divide families, Mother against Daughter, Father against Sons.
If Hathaway wished to leave the RCC then it is her choice, but the doors would be open for a reconciliation upon repentence.
That, and from our chosen organization?
I thought she was referring to her chosen religion, not that she turned away from God. I guess only she really knows what she meant.
She and her boyfriend fleeced the Catholic Church out of millions. She was lucky to beat the rap:
http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/people/anne-hathaways-ex-jailed-over-vatican-scam-20090403-9rq4.html
They should just join the Unitarian Church.
The article doesn’t mention her as being involved, does it?
I am told (in Post 23 of 52) that she is an actress.
I would be interested in her opinion if she was a truck driver, or an accounts payable clerk, or some other person with a real job and a real life.
Since when do I care about the opinions of a clown - I mean, literally, a clown? Actors are clowns. Glorified clowns, mind you, but when you strip away the false glory heaped upon them by a co-conspiring BS MSM, then... why, they’re just plain old clowns. Why would anyone ask a clown for an opinion? Why? I don’t give a flyin’ fart what a clown thinks.
Interesting. So when my brother cheated on his wife, I should have dumped my church and looked for one that said adultery was okay? I never looked at faith that way. I always thought that the Creator of the Universe had the innate authority to tell me how to live my life, and my job was to follow His will. I guess the liberal perspective is that God has no business telling us what to do - if He wants to be in our lives, he has to do it on our terms. Wow!
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1025432620080911
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Anne Hathaway says she felt like “a rug was pulled out from under me” when her Italian boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, was arrested on fraud charges and that she is still looking for a new place to live.
Entertainment | People
The “Princess Diaries” and “Devil Wears Prada” star broke her silence on the June arrest of her boyfriend of four years in an interview in the October edition of W magazine.
“As soon as I found out about the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press tour for ‘Get Smart.’ And then I spent a week in shock at a friend’s house. And then I had to go back and do more press, and I haven’t stopped since,” Hathaway, 25, was quoted as saying.
Hathaway declined to discuss specifics about Follieri or what she knew abut his business dealings. But the actress said she had been staying at a friend’s house since moving out of the New York apartment she shared with Follieri, which was searched by investigators.
“I have to find a place to live,” she told the magazine. “It’s a situation where the rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden, but just as suddenly my friends threw another rug back under me.”
Follieri, 30, pleaded guilty in New York on Wednesday to 14 counts of fraud and money laundering. He admitted to lying about his links to the Vatican and taking part in a scheme in which he obtained more than $2 million in a web of shell companies with phony consultancies.
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#2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
#2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
#2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
That kinda stupid Monk quitting Church you grew up in
I like Anne Hawtahway ever since Princess Diaries she was good in it
Imho, this is very compassionate. Thanks, monkapotamus.
I agree with your thought here.
I read ‘organization’ and thought...how do you refer to the Church as an ‘organization’. I mean, yes, ok, it is, but it’s so much more than that. ACORN is an organization. The SEIU, that’s an organization.
The absolute rejection of the holy nature of church, the debasing of it to become just an ‘organization’ tells me a great deal (in case the whole leaving the Church because of my gay brother thing escaped me).
Very sad, all around.
Hey Anne, don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
“Narrow is the road that leads to salvation and few find it, wide is the road that leads to destruction, and many are lead astray.”
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