Friday Night Flix: we had our last movie night of the summer last Friday and the movie of choice was Chain Reaction, with Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman. While this movie fails to present a whole lot of moral issues or challenges, it is a fast-paced action movie that is only rated pg-13. The violence is kept to a minimum and is not gory at all. There are no sex scenes or shots of nudity. There are a couple minor uses of profanity, but all in all my opinion of the movie is very high. I wanted to hold it up as a model of what a good action movie can be. More often than not Hollywood has filled our movies with enough profanity and sexuality to choke a camel. As long as we continue to watch movies with things that offend our Catholic morals, society will continue to produce them. By supporting movies that are clean, decent, and wholesome we send a message to movie producers and actors that this is what we want. Most people in the movie industry are primarily influenced how much money they can make, and as such we must show them that they can make good money through the production of quality, family friendly movies. The one thing that I did notice in the movie that I didn’t agree with was the theory that the world was over populated. While this was not a major theme in the movie by any means, it was there and we had a good discussion about population control and why the Catholic Church says that use of contraception constitutes an intrinsically evil act (CCC 2370)
Life-teen: We are having our beginning of the year barbeque kickoff next weekend after the Life-teen Mass. This translates into about 6:40pm or so for those of you who prefer to attend the 9:00am Mass. This is open to all high school students and their families. I encourage everyone to come and join us for the kickoff of what promises to be a rocking year. Please remember to watch the bulletin for updates and deadlines for important events.
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