The Golden Compass is pointing towards anti-Catholicism (starring Nicole Kidman - a Catholic)

American Papist ^ | August 20, 2007 | Thomas Peters

[NYer]

Another film from Hollyweird.

[dragonblustar]

Kidman told the magazine: "I was raised Catholic, the Catholic Church is part of my essence.""I wouldn't be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic."

She's not too bright.

[gondramB]

I know nothing about this film but how sincere of a Catholic could somebody who married and then divorce Tom Cruise be?

[ArrogantBustard]

Getting the heck away from Tom “Xenu” Cruise strikes me as a very sensible thing to do ...

[Oztrich Boy]

Narrator: "[This] is a world dominated by the Magisterium, which seeks to control all humanity, and whose greatest threat, is the curiosity of a child."

Hasn't this movie already been made?

"Our plan would have worked too, but for those meddling kids and their dog"

[gondramB]

>>Getting the heck away from Tom “Xenu” Cruise strikes me as a very sensible thing to do ...<<

Oh yeah.

But divorce, as I understand it is not Catholic.

Maybe she got annulment on the grounds of deception or his lack of sanity.

[ArrogantBustard]

IIRC, She and Xenu had a "scientology wedding" ... being as she's a baptized Catholic (from her childhood), any ceremony, other than an actual Catholic sacramental marriage is invalid for her. The declaration of nullity would be pretty much pro forma. Then, of course, there's the question of mental stability ...

[gondramB]

>>IIRC, She and Xenu had a “scientology wedding” ... being as she’s a baptized Catholic (from her childhood), any ceremony, other than an actual Catholic sacramental marriage is invalid for her. The declaration of nullity would be pretty much pro forma. Then, of course, there’s the question of mental stability ..<<

interesting....

Does that mean if a Baptist and Catholic or two Baptists wed in a Baptist church with a Baptist preacher that any children are considered bastards (or whatever the proper term for unmarried parents is)?

[silverleaf]

.””I wouldn’t be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic.”

She’s either a liar or a stupid twit who hasn’t read the trilogy or read about the author. But someone in the family has to pay Keith’s rehab bills.

[Petronski]

Like, zoinks!

[Old Seadog]

She is pretty,though.

[silverleaf]

Scientology weddings are not considered weddings by the church- in fact when Tom got “married” to Katie Holmes in Italy, it wasn’t even a recognized wedding- just for show. The civil wedding was his “wedding”, not renting a castle and all that jazz.

If a Baptist marries a Catholic but not in a Catholic church or with a Catholic priest, the Catholic church does not consider the Catholic sacrament of marriage has been performed. But will be happy to help the non-Catholic spouse understand and carry out the requirements for the children to receive other Catholic sacraments such as baptism, eucharist (at age 7/8) etc.

[gondramB]

Thank you for that explanation.

[kanawa]

Self ping for when I finish the trilogy. 230 pages to go.

[ArrogantBustard]

To finish the explanantion ... two Baptists (one male, one female, of age, etc.) who marry in a Baptist Church according to whatever rules apply there are recognised by the Catholic Church as being validly married. Generally, the Church recognises as valid any marriage entered into according to the standards of whatever belief system the couple subscribed to at the time of their marriage. The general exception to the above is that one cannot cease to be Catholic.

[ichabod1]

So she was just fornicating and her children are bastards.

[ichabod1]

btw... you can get a divorce without incurring any penalty in the Catholic Church. It isn’t until you want to remarry that there’s a bit of a problem.

[gondramB]

Aha. I did not know that. Thank you.

[ArrogantBustard]

Her children are children.

Shacking up without benefit of marriage is (presumptively) a lifestyle of serial fornication or adultery. And it’s quite common. Unfortunately.