Louis de Montfort, and wearing their rosaries and emblems of the Sacred Heart, their sacrifices resulted in countless martyrdoms, and ultimately won the restoration of religious freedom for all of France. Steeped in the spiritual influence of St.
This is the unknown, heroic story of the valiant, six year struggle of the people of that small section of western France to restore their Holy Religion and their King. In 1793, after enduring three and a half years of persecution of the Church by the architects of the French Revolution, a small band of faithful peasants and nobles from the Vendee region of France began a Catholic "counter-revolution". Featuring an exuberant and gifted cast of over 250 young Catholics, it is a powerful story of sacrifice and martyrdom, but told here with a careful sense of reserve, and is an outstanding movie for the whole family. Bernadette of Lourdes, tells the moving story of France's little known religious civil war in the years following the French Revolution. (See the post dated Mafor the link to the interview.This inspiring new film from Navis Pictures, producers of St.
Those above four points pretty much summarize the crux of the response which former Cardinal Ratzinger gave to Raymond Arroyo’s question about renewal or reform in the interview of September 2003, published elsewhere on this blog. But the intensity of its joy living the faith will irradiate to the rest. He, perhaps better than anyone, is painfully aware of the need to reform.įourth, it will live at peace with the rest of the Church’s members: hierarchy and people. One could even say, his sole aspiration for the Church is reform of Her ecclesial life. Pope Benedict is not concerned with babysitting anyone or marginalizing them by use of labels or prejudices. Third, it will be about reform, gradually (or quickly as the case may be) transforming the rest of ecclesial life but definitely not ‘babysitting’ Catholics of any one sort or stripe. In continuation of the post of March 26, what does the Pope’s vision of reform in general mean for a traditional reform?įirst, it, too, will be small in numbers, composed of members “with the élan of faith”.
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