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<\/a><\/div>\nWe\u2019ve had a bit of Jeremy fill in recent weeks.\u00a0 With The Hollow Crown<\/em> series, and the other night, with the movie The Mission<\/em>.\u00a0 One of the great films, it should be mandatory watching for Catholics.\u00a0 True, it is hardly a sympathetic portrayal of the Church.\u00a0 Like all Hollywood adaptations, it\u2019s purpose is to preach.\u00a0 Still, it does so beautifully.\u00a0 And it takes a real moment in Church history, oft forgotten, when the Church sometimes zigged rather than zagged. <\/p>\nMost people are stuck around the Crusades or the Inquisition.\u00a0 But truth be told, the Church\u2019s real problems have historically been during great, tumultuous changes in the contemporary context in which it finds itself.\u00a0 Whether the sudden recognition by Constantine, and the power and influence it brought; or the rise of\u00a0 Medieval Feudal society and its linking to wealth and land and power; or the post-Reformation years that found the Church assailed on every side by forces seeking to strip it of its powers, the Church has not always reacted in the best ways. <\/p>\n
As we face perhaps the greatest threat to orthodoxy since the Arian controversy, and simultaneously face the greatest threat to the Church\u2019s authority and ability to convey Truth authoritatively since the Reformation, it will be something to watch.\u00a0 Nobody here will be around to see the final results.\u00a0 Right now, it\u2019s enough to know that the Church again finds itself in the crossroads of historic change.\u00a0 It\u2019s at those times that the Church historically staked claims on principles and ideals that ended up going in directions no Apostle could ever have dreamed of, and few Catholics today recount with pride and joy.\u00a0 Watch The Mission.\u00a0 A clash of state, church and money.\u00a0 And remember it\u2019s not the first or last time the Church will be in the crosshairs of history. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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