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Hilary White

Editor’s Note: Many thanks to my friend and colleague, Hilary White, for the following film review. I have not seen Calvary myself (nor do I intend to) but I have spoken about it with a close confidant who has, and who actually advised against reviewing the film, even though he appreciates its merits along the same lines put forth below. His concern (and mine) is that in the process of reviewing the film The Remnant may appear to be encouraging everyone to go see it. Such is not the case. In fact, it is my friend’s considered opinion that no one under 50 should see this film and that anyone who does see it must be morally and psychologically stable, as well as firmly grounded in the Faith. To cut to the chase, The Remnant DOES NOT RECOMMEND THIS FILM but does believe that offering Miss White's fine commentary on it is really most useful for the purposes of exposing the rise of blatant evil in the world today--an evil that has become so bold even the motion picture industry can neither ignore it nor pretend it is harmless. Modern society is firmly in the grasp of the demonic, and, as is made abundantly obvious in the lines below, we had better prepare ourselves for something very wicked that most of us have never even fathomed. MJM 


Why is sin bad?

Now there’s an odd question, you might think. And you’d think the answer was obvious, right? Because… well… sin, and well… errrmmm… evil and consequences and stuff… Um…

OK, gimme a second, I’ll look it up in Thomas.

I’m going to take a wild shot in the dark and say that most pro-life people, even the converts to the position, came from a home environment that included more than one other person. Most people, I have learned, come from this thing called a “family,” that involves a variety of other people, male and female, young and old, to whom one remains ontologically connected for the rest of one’s life. I have also learned, though this took somewhat longer, that most people regard these “families” as a good and useful thing, of positive benefit in their lives.

These ideas have taken some effort to get used to.

This presumption of familial security, common to most people operating in the pro-life world, is perhaps something of a handicap. It tends to make pro-lifers appear smug and self-satisfied and unable to understand the connotations of their message for those on the other side. And it quite possibly makes it impossible for them to understand the hatred and rage they, in all innocence, can engender when they suggest that abortion must be outlawed. I remember when I was younger seeing pro-life people holding signs of babies and advocating motherhood and thinking they were the worst people in the world. What kind of awful people would try to force a woman to destroy herself over a blob of cells?

ROME, March 12, 2013, www.RemnantNewspaper.com  – The waiting time is drawing to a close. This afternoon, the cardinals will have their first ballot. Starting last Wednesday, the cardinals agreed that their discussions will be continued under greater secrecy. This means that we are left to examine the evidence and facts we already know to piece together, if not the outcome of the conclave, then at least the issues looming in the minds of the cardinal electors.

On that day it was announced that the press conferences organised at the Pontifical North American College, up the hill from St. Peter’s, where US cardinals were giving politely evasive and non-specific non-information to US and British journalists, had been cancelled. It came out that the reason was that some Italian cardinals, whose interpretation of the oath of secrecy was a little more, shall we say, flexible, were giving Italian journalists what amounted to transcripts of the meetings.

And there we have in a nutshell a hint as to how the Vatican administration works at the highest levels: chaotically, with no very strong connections to reality.

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