The Failure of Black Robes Cinematic Redemption :: Black Robe Research Papers

The Failure of Black Robes cinematic Redemption Works Cited Mis faultgMusings all everywhere Talk Radio1 Ive been comprehend to talk radio lately. Not ex characterizationly sure why. I animadvert I derive a smug sense of superiority over callers who are a little too concerned with high forest mulch or the Phillies relief pitching. People become incensed over the most ludicrous things. Recently, though, I divulged callers venting over something a little closer to my heart, and I couldnt listen with the same ironic withdrawnness from which I usually stand. pontiff whoremonger Paul II had issued (at a papal Mass on March 12) an apology for the sins of the church over the past 2000 years. As a Roman Catholic embarrassed by many severalises of my Churchs history--the Crusades, the Inquisition, silence in the midst of the Holocaust--I was gratified to hear that the Pope was asking forgiveness for the Church as a whole. As can be expected, many were dissatisfied with the apology. Some felt John Paul II was not specific enough, failing to mention Pope Pius XIIs failure to condemn Hitlers mass execution of Jews and other minorities in the Holocaust. However, when hearing to the radio phone-in show, what struck me was that many of the callers were Catholics who resented being implicated in the Popes apology. 2 I can understand the callers indignation. I remember elementary school days, information the Catholic doctrine of original sin, the idea that the first sin against God--whether you conceptualize it was the Adam and Eve story or some other magnetic declination of humanitys origins--stained all descendants of those first sinners (in other words, everyone). How unfair, I thought, that the sins of some dull people from the past would cause me to be stained in the eyeball of God. And what did the thirty-something caller from Jenkintown, PA, have to do with the Inquisition? Partial membership3 Its been a long time since Catholic elementa ry school, and original sin is still a tough pill to swallow. However, Ive come to understand it (and my problems with it) as a matter of my identity not just as an one-on-one but as a member of a group. I whitethorn not have sampled forbidden fruit, but as a part of the human race I am affected by that act (I say this not to proselytize, but to express my perspective as a Catholic).