Priest warns NOT to watch ‘Conclave’ movie, calls it ‘mockery of our faith’
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This film “is about eroding salvation, about mocking salvation, this is about discrediting the Holy Roman Catholic Church,” said Fr. Jonathan Meyer of All Saints Parish in Guilford, Indiana, in a recent YouTube video message. Fr. Meyer decried various quotes from the movie, including one which he denounced as heresy. Further, in a subversive final plot twist, the movie also evidently disregards the fact that the pope has to be male.
The newly elected pope turns out to be a biological woman, who was “raised a man,” and “looks like a man,” Fr. Meyer said. Fr. Meyer emphasized Church teaching that a woman cannot be ordained a priest. He referenced a 1994 statement from Pope St. John Paul II, who said: “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.”
“There has to be a point where you say, ‘Absolutely not, enough is enough,’” he said. “‘I don’t need to see ‘Conclave,’ and neither do you.’”
A professor writing for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ Angelus News also criticized the movie, which is based off of a novel by Robert Harris, as “a badly written, poorly researched, half-baked mystery that takes itself too seriously but turns at times into unwitting comedy.” Stefano Rebeggiani wrote in his review of the movie that “It is so simplistic, ignorant, and shallow that it feels like it was written for an audience of 12-year-olds.”
Rebeggiani is an associate professor of Classics at the University of Southern California. Acknowledging the film’s anti-Catholic bias, he criticized it for being “just plain bad,” noting that it is filled with “a whole lot of cliches and stereotypes.” When a new, mysterious so-called cardinal enters shortly after the film begins, Rebeggiani explains that it is evident who will be the next pope. While all the other cardinals “are corrupt and two-faced,” focusing on wealth and power, this new so-called cardinal is not, and rather focuses on those in need.
Rebeggiani also described a speech given by this so-called cardinal as “so full of platitudes it could have been written by ChatGPT.” “I am not surprised that a movie so bad was produced,” Rebeggiani concluded: “I am surprised to see a respected cast of actors associated with such uninspiring material.”
Since most film critics are atheists, agnostics, or pagans, they will gush over a film like this. The only movies they like about Catholics or Christianity are those that attack it.
When the pedophile priest scandal hit its peak, the Catholic Church found that pedophilia represented only 2% of priests, the same as the general population.