tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post2352438509653721541..comments2024-03-28T02:22:35.857-07:00Comments on The Eponymous Flower: The Sovereignty of the People of GodTancredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16015531337154301560noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4404498638452030181.post-2028029988329130592019-12-28T02:13:45.352-08:002019-12-28T02:13:45.352-08:00Turner Classic Movies has a lot of good "oldi...Turner Classic Movies has a lot of good "oldies but goodies". Two movies of note are relevant here. The first is "Passage to Marseille" with Humphrey Bogart.---This was about the takeover of France by the Nazis and the Vichy government who put a goodly number of profiled opposition on Devil's Island. They escape and head out to sea and are picked up by a freighter with a captain supportive of Free France. They are boarded by the Nazis and forced to head for Marseille.----Bogart is heroic and leads a rebellion on the ship. A German bomber is sent out to blow them away. By a miracle they survive and join the war effort with Free France. Bogart is killed as a member of the Air Force at the end and leaves a legacy in his son. Claude Rains does the eulogy and there is a buildup toward "Casablanca".---This was a terrible time. What would Pope Francis have done in that cauldron" His answer would have been to join the Communist opposition and to use the war as a jump off to a world government.----The second movie was "The Music Man" and Professor Harold Hill. You could put Pope Francis as the lead character in forming a "boys' band". He does not use reason but emotion and "the think method" for playing an instrument. The problem with the movie is that the lead character admits his faults at the end and is reformed by a good woman in Shirley Jones.----That would never do for the Argentinian. The womanly figure of the Church is not reforming him. He is reforming the Church into a monstrosity which is not God centered but man centered.---The one thing that we know about con artists is that they are eventually figured out. Adolph had his flaws as did Uncle Joe. The thing about Jesus Christ is that He was truth and hid nothing.---"The Three Stooges" were beloved by a lot more people than John Paul II but he was among 'em. One of their key phrases in the drama of criticism was "I resemble that remark". If you put JPII and FrI in the light of the "glow of the Gospel", we all know which of the two "resembles those remarks".JBQhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09344181644293746758noreply@blogger.com