Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex

A month or so ago I ran into a lady at a pro-life gathering peddling a stack of yellow flyers, promoting a Christian pro-life film “like” Bella, called “Noelle” and while enduring my brief but painful inquisition, it took her no more than 15 seconds to convince me something wasn’t right about her and/or the film as I tend to get a tad suspicious when a disclaimer is followed by a but, as was the case of a pro-life advocate, who felt “we” needed to stop judging women who were getting abortions. I was then introduced to Noëlle, a film about a priest - girl - pregnant - abortion…., but we mustn’t get defensive - it’s Christian, it’s pro-life, it’s all about forgiveness!! She admittedly didn’t know the details of the film, but none-the-less, continued to walk among the crowed promoting it.

I admit it, I do get defensive and tend to over react to what appears to be this relentless stereotyping agenda of Catholic priests and the Church by the media, I just get so sick of it, so I called her on it. “But don’t be so quick to judge, it’s a Christian film and it’s pro-life!!” Look as I could, I never found anything on-line that could definitively identify this movie as being anti-Catholic, until yesterday.

In short:

If you’re in the Catholic camp, it’s a (1) anti-Catholic smear movie which (2) denigrates Catholicism .

If you’re in the NOT Catholic group, and you (1) liked ‘Bella,’ You’ll Love ‘Noëlle’ it’s a (2) powerhouse with a message to heal millions, (3) which offers Inspirational Message of Forgiveness and Second Chances for the Christmas Season.

Apparently, for some christians the only thing better than a pro-life film for the holidays is a pro-life film flavored with fumbling Catholics .

I’ll try to be careful here, but all this brings out an issue that came to light as we tried to bring together the pro-life community for the 40 Days for Life. We were optimistic and enthusiastic about including the Protestant community in the campaign, but despite our pleading among the mega churches and abundance of pro-life Christians in our fine city, we had absolutely zero participation. From what I perceived and heard, it was more important that it NOT be Catholic than it being pro-life, or maybe they were just too busy preparing for the Pro-Life event of the year - the one hour long Life Chain. Then again, if they came knocking on my door, would I be open to support their pro-life endeavors? I hope I would be. In the name of fairness, there were also plenty of Catholic churches who were not receptive of supporting the cause.

Anyway, I heard the movie stunk, hooray for Christian unity and Merry Christmas!