You could say I am several years too late with this article. You’re right,
but maybe better late than never.
I RARELY go to movies. If I go to one movie theater a year, that is more
than average. I find that most movies today (given their previews) invariably contain at LEAST one
scene that portrays the breaking of at least one of God’s Commandments, and frankly I don’t find such
"entertaining." I am concerned, however, that society today is hardly offended by "sinful" scenes
and have become insensitive to the moral decay with which modern movies (and plays) are inundated.
One evidence of such insensitivity occurred with the movie SISTER ACT! I
admit that I went to see that movie because so many people told me how funny it was and how much
they liked it. I trusted their judgment.
I confess that I did laugh at times, but as the movie progressed I became
humiliated at how Hollywood was portraying the consecrated life of nuns. Oh, I certainly
believe that all of us should be able to laugh at ourselves and I don’t think we can have good mental health if
we take ourselves too seriously.
After the movie I thought that Hollywood would not get away with making fun
of Jews or black people the way they made fun of "nuns." Hollywood really made the "nuns" in
the movie come across like they were absolute idiots who couldn’t carry a tune in a tin bucket. It
took Whoopi Goldberg, wagging her hips in the sanctuary of a Church to bring the "best" out of the
"nuns."???
How stupid, blasphemous, and what an ingenious tool of "red-sweats."
Did you see the movie? If so, really try to be objective. Don’t you think
that the "world" finds it very hard to understand the celibate consecrated life? Hollywood is so imbued
with "sex" that they win first prize in not comprehending the words of Jesus, Who in speaking of living
celibately said: "Let him take it who can take it."
Imagine Hollywood making a movie of a group of black people who lacked the
ability to feel rhythm in their dance. Or imagine Hollywood making a movie of a group of Jews
who acted like idiots about their ancestry? It’s hard for us to imagine such a movie to be
tolerated. But "nuns" can be made to look like absolute nerds and people think it is just great!
May I inform you that most "Sisters" have at least a Bachelor’s degree and
many, many have Master’s Degrees and Ph Ds. They may not talk about it, but most Sisters I
know are very well educated... certainly beyond high school.
How many professional people are there in our country who were taught in
grade school or high school by women religious.
If you are one of those persons who thought SISTER ACT was terrific I
question your sensitivity and respect for what is set apart for the service of God. How subtle the evil
one is! He never makes a bad thing look bad! He always makes it look good so that we are drawn to it.
Unless we have a deep prayer life, we may be easily taken in to mock what the
Church holds as sacred. Today Hollywood makes fun of those living a consecrated life.
Tomorrow it will make fun of the layman’s Faith. "Watch and pray," Jesus said, "lest you enter into temptation."
Let's all be a little more sensitive to the Catholic bashing that is so prevalent today and not be afraid to stand up and say "Enough! That not only offends me, but it offends my Lord and my God as well as His dear Blessed Mother and all the angels and saints above!"
God bless you.