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As Kris said to me last night, \u201cWho would ever have thought that this [your] face would end up in People <\/em>magazine?\u201d Of course, I\u2019m stretching the truth \u2014 you won\u2019t see my face in People<\/em>, but you just might see a quotation.
\nThey are doing a story on Mary and The Nativity Story<\/em>, and they gave me a call. Of course, the magazine eluded me. When my publicist told me that People <\/em>wanted to talk to me, my mind wandered not to People <\/em>but to Newsweek<\/em>. So, after talking to the newswriter and sitting down at lunch with my student (Ben Wickstrom), I said \u201cPeople<\/em>\u201d and then thought, \u201cGood grief, that\u2019s at the grocery store.\u201d
\nThe editor, Kathy Dowd, and I chatted for about 15 minutes \u2014 I standing in a very light drizzle. We wandered through Mary and the movie and then Keisha Castle-Hughes, and the big issue: Her not being invited to the Vatican for the International Premiere. Now, I\u2019ll say this again: the rumor is that it had to do with her pregnancy. I don\u2019t know if this is true. Now see this<\/a> \u2014 the publicist says she is missing premieres because of working on another film.
\nThe gist of my comment: This is a delicious irony \u2014 Mary\u2019s actress being in the same social situation as Mary herself, and I hope the Church (all of us, and I\u2019m not thinking here of the Vatican) will respond to Keisha in ways unlike the way Mary\u2019s culture responded to her. (And The Nativity Story<\/em> makes a big deal of how poorly she was treated.) And I believe in Mary\u2019s virginal conception.
\nHow do we treat with compassion those who have \u201cbroken the rules\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"