When the film Conclave was released some months ago US bishop Robert Barron advised Catholics to avoid the film.
The film based on the book of the same name by Robert Harris is an excellent film. Many critics say the film is as good if not better than the book.
The film is the work of German director Edward Berger and is well worth seeing.
Yesterday Bishop Barron wrote on X the piece below on Jimmy Carter’s funeral service.
Would it not have been more dignified and appropriate for the bishop to have said nothing? Is it not the business of the family to bury their father in the manner they decide? They may well have been carrying out the wishes of their father. Jimmy Carter was a great man and certainly his funeral service does not deserve the comments made by Bishop Barron.
Below is his comment on X.
"I was watching highlights from President Carter’s funeral service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. I found some of the speeches very moving. But I was appalled when two country singers launched into a rendition of John Lennon’s "Imagine." Under the soaring vault of what I think is still a Christian church, they reverently intoned, “Imagine there’s no heaven; it’s easy if you try” and “imagine there’s no country; it isn’t hard to do. Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too.” Vested ministers sat patiently while a hymn to atheistic humanism was sung. This was not only an insult to the memory of a devoutly believing Christian but also an indicator of the spinelessness of too much of established religion in our country."
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