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THIS FILM IS A NEW LOW AND CROSSES A HUGE LINE. SETH ROGEN HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR. The movie-making and entertainment bar has just been lowered to a depressing new low. Seth Rogen (who brought you “Superbad” and “Sausage Party”) has a new, raunchy, “R”-rated film entitled “Good Boys” about three middle school friends who innocently get caught up in today’s depraved culture. A new line has been crossed with this show. It’s something NEW, something evil. Watch any iteration of “Good Boys” several different trailers and you will weep. You’ll wonder how a more-or-less mainstream creative mind—such as Rogen’s--could come up with something so devilish. Actually, it’s not that his mind WENT there, but that he EXECUTED this complete degradation of young people—a previously taboo, off-limits maneuver.  Think about it. I’m sure plenty of studios and screenwriters and producers and actors and show-runners have dreamt up nasty story-lines involving kids--but basic human decency prevented them...

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Listen to parts 1 & 2 of @ChurchMasses interview w/ @SrHelenaBurns on "Theology of the Body in Art & Media" https:// virginmostpowerfulradio.org/church-of-the- masses/   … … (Part 1=July 11, Part 2=July 18) THREE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY PRINCIPLES FOR ARTISTS: 1. The personalistic norm: "A human being may never be used. The only appropriate response to a person is love." 2. For artists, ethics ARE aesthetics. 3. The purpose of art is the same as the purpose of the body: to make visible the invisible; to reveal the deepest, unseen meaning of things. THREE MAIN POINTS BY WHICH SR. HELENA REVIEWS A FILM: 1. Excellence in filmmaking 2. Overall experience of the film (and where is film coming from/why was it made?) 3. How does the film jive with a Judaeo-Christian, biblical, sacramental, Theology of the Body worldview? SHOULD I WATCH THIS FILM (AS AN ADULT)? 1. Pray. Pray before, during, after the film. 2. Know thyself. 3. Hit pause. It's OK to look away / f...

This is pediatrician Dr. Michelle Cretella who founded the American College of Pediatricians: a breakaway group from the APA that doesn't support puberty-blockers, hormone treatments, surgeries of children. www.BestForChildren.org 

Good new doc from Vatican Congregation on Catholic Education entitled "Male & Female He Created Them: Toward a Path of Dialogue on Question of Gender Ideology in Education." Skeletal but good start. My 2 cents (nuances) below. Here's the document itself: http://www.educatio.va/content/dam/cec/Documenti/19_0997_INGLESE.pdf MY COMMENTS ON NEW DOCUMENT FROM VATICAN CONGREGATION FOR EDUCATION ON GENDER IDEOLOGY: (#'s refer to paragraphs) --#11-12 The definitions of “sexual orientation,” “transgenderism” and “queer” are slightly different than my (current) understanding of them (since language, too, is subject to fluidity!) and I think could have been defined with more nuance, precision and explanation. --#16 This statement is not clear to me: “welcome all legitimate expressions of human personhood with respect.” [What is a legitimate expression? We welcome persons themselves, not so much expressions, just like we respect a person and their right to religious freedom--...

$600 -- proceeds go toward our building fund! No bench. Needs tuning, but all keys are functional. About 30 years old. Only used by nuns and a prayer group in a convent basement. :)